The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: allegations of harassment in the Russian Federation diplomats from the United States unfoun

Moscow calls unfounded statements about the fact that in Russia harass American diplomats, according to the explanation of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, released Tuesday.

yesterday the American television channel ABC said about the growth in the last few years the number of incidents where Employees of the Embassy as if subjected to intimidation and psychological pressure ". Pointing to without a return address authorized American state TV also said that the most dramatic growth has occurred in this year amid tensions pairs of countries because of differences in the estimates on the crisis in Ukraine.

The press attach? of the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Russia William Stevens, for his part, said that American employees of the foreign Ministry in the past few years are more often exposed to the pressure in the RF.

" Laid out clearly with the filing of the State Department " stuffing " channel " Hey-home of the BBC news about as if rendered by employees of the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Russia " psychological impact " and systematic " intimidation ", unfounded and detached from reality, " informs because of this, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

" It's not even that sounded " complaints " does not reach the level of cheap spy detectives, and be reduced to the banal fantasies on the issue of some hacking e-mail, punctured tires, mysterious " intrusion " in the apartment. Angry peremptory and contrary to the facts the statement gosdepovskaia of the press Secretary, " in contrast to the behavior of the Russians " the American side to the diplomats from Russia is " with the utmost respect, " says the Russian foreign Ministry.

The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation showed that American employees of the foreign Ministry in the capital of Russia " does not exemplify the law and compliance with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations regarding the respect of the laws and regulations of the host country ".

" Only since the beginning of the current year documented 20 cases of traffic violations by employees of the U.S. Embassy during trips to Moscow and other Russian cities. Any note, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with a request to take violators to disciplinary action, in the most flagrant case in the last new year's eve, when authorized diplomatic mission crashed into parked on the street at walking distance from the Embassy complex cars, there was no answer, " emphasizes Russian depodesta.


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