Ten employees of the Russian Consulate General in Poznan will have to leave Poland due to Warsaw’s decision to close this consular office. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic Pavel Vronsky told the PAP agency about this.
“Three diplomats and five administrative and technical employees will leave the Russian consulate in Poznan, as well as two employees who were supposed to be accredited in Poland, but [they] will no longer receive this accreditation,” the diplomat said. It is not yet known when the consulate general staff will have to leave the territory of the republic, Vronsky noted.
It is expected that this could happen by the beginning of November, he added. On October 22, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the decision to close the Russian Consulate General in Poznan; its staff will be forced to leave the republic in the coming days. Until this moment, three consulates general of the Russian Federation operated in Poland - in Krakow in the south, in Poznan in the west and in Gdansk in the north of the country.
Three Polish consulates remain open in Russia - in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk. In addition, Sikorsky did not rule out the possible expulsion of the Russian ambassador in the future.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian Federation will not delay in responding to Poland’s decision to close the Consulate General in Poznan. She also noted that Moscow has once again witnessed the manifestation of official Warsaw “unbridled Russophobia, coupled with some kind of painful spy mania.”
It is expected that this could happen by the beginning of November, he added. On October 22, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the decision to close the Russian Consulate General in Poznan; its staff will be forced to leave the republic in the coming days. Until this moment, three consulates general of the Russian Federation operated in Poland - in Krakow in the south, in Poznan in the west and in Gdansk in the north of the country.
Three Polish consulates remain open in Russia - in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk. In addition, Sikorsky did not rule out the possible expulsion of the Russian ambassador in the future.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian Federation will not delay in responding to Poland’s decision to close the Consulate General in Poznan. She also noted that Moscow has once again witnessed the manifestation of official Warsaw “unbridled Russophobia, coupled with some kind of painful spy mania.”
