Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced this morning that the Russian Mission to NATO would be shutting down within two weeks, and that the NATO Information Office in Moscow would, as a consequence, be closed. In a statement on the Foreign Ministry website, Lavrov described the hostile NATO actions, and declared: “In the absence of the necessary conditions for conducting diplomatic activities, due to NATO’s deliberate steps, the functioning of the Russian Permanent Mission to NATO, including its chief military representative, shall be suspended….
“The activities of the NATO Military Liaison Mission Moscow shall be suspended. The accreditation of its employees shall be withdrawn on November 1, 2021;
“The NATO Information Office at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Moscow shall be closed down.”
