Russia expels Colombian diplomats – Europe – International

After two Russian diplomats from the Colombian embassy were expelled from the country after being accused of “activities incompatible” with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Russian government ordered two Colombian officials from the Moscow embassy to leave the country.

(Further: Putin promulgates law that will grant him immunity when he leaves the Kremlin).

“On December 22, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia to the Russian Federation, Alfonso López Caballero, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia to express a protest in relation to the unfounded decision of the Colombian side to expel two diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Bogotá, “the statement released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officiates.

“This action does not correspond to the spirit of the traditionally friendly and mutually respectful relations between Russia and Colombia,” he points out.

(Read here: The secret dossier of the Russian spy plot in Colombia).

Leonardo Andrés González Guzmán, who served as Colombia’s second foreign secretary in Moscow and the third secretary, Ana María Pinilla Morón, were the members of the diplomatic corps expelled in the last hours.

Ambassador López Caballero said, as reported by Blu Radio, that the two Colombian diplomats have already taken a plane to Colombia.

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