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After the Government of Colombia requested the withdrawal of two Russian diplomats, whom it accused of “incompatible activities” with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Government of Russia He ordered two officials from the Colombian Embassy in Moscow to leave the country in reciprocity to the withdrawal made by Colombia.
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In addition, Russia assured that it was an “unfounded decision by Colombia” to expel two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Bogotá.
“On December 22, the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Republic of Colombia in the Russian Federation, Alfonso López Caballero, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a protest was expressed over Colombia’s unfounded decision to expel two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Bogotá, “says the statement posted on the Ministry’s website, notes the Russian news outlet Sputnik.
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This same media assures that, according to the note, Bogotá’s decision does not correspond to “the traditionally friendly and mutually respectful relations that exist between Russia and Colombia.”
Sputnik asserted that López Caballero, for his part, reported that two Colombian diplomats, declared unwelcome people, have already arrived at the airport, passed customs control and got on the plane.
However, President Iván Duque and the Foreign Ministry assured that, despite this incident, “Colombia’s purpose is to maintain the good level that diplomatic, commercial and cooperation relations with the Russian Federation have traditionally set.”
Headquarters of the Russian embassy in Bogotá.
Nestor Gomez. TIME
This December 22, the Government confirmed through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that it expelled two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Bogotá for “activities incompatible” with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
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The expulsion of the two Russian officials occurred on December 8, as confirmed by the director of the state Migration Colombia, Juan Francisco Espinosa, and that they will not be able to return in the short term.
“Given the circumstances in which these two people leave, in the short term they will not be able to return to the country,” he said.
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