Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Nato expels seven staff from Russian mission over Skripal poisoning

Nato chief says move sends ‘clear and very strong message there is a cost to Russia’s reckless actions’

Nato has announced it is cutting the size of its Russian mission by a third, removing accreditation from seven Russian staff and rejecting three other pending applications.

The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the permanent size of the Russian mission would be cut from 30 to 20 people, adding the announcement was “a clear and very strong message that there was a cost to Russia’s reckless actions” in poisoning the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury earlier this month.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2I65jse

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