Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced that NATO will suspend the activities of the Russian delegation in NATO as a countermeasure against the fact that NATO has announced that it will effectively expel Russian diplomats. It looks like it will get colder.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on the 18th that he would suspend the activities of NATO's Permanent Mission to Russia in Brussels, suspend the activities of NATO's office in Moscow, and revoke the permission to station staff. Announced that it will take.
Prior to this, on the 7th of this month, NATO announced that it had taken steps to effectively expel eight diplomats from NATO's Permanent Mission to Russia in Brussels, claiming they were "intelligence officers." ..
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused NATO of not being interested in fair dialogue and collaborative work. There was no suitable environment for diplomatic activities, and said it was a countermeasure against NATO next month. It is said that the activity will be suspended on the 1st.
In the future, if an urgent issue arises with NATO, the Russian Embassy in Brussels will be the point of contact.
After the Cold War, Russia and NATO have continued military communications and dialogues such as counterterrorism through the Permanent Mission, but the suspension of the Permanent Mission's activities is likely to further cool the relationship.