Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Canadian Foreign Ministry summoned to the Russian Ambassador carpet.

KommentariiUdar oslepshego nosoroga30.04.2009NATO expelled two Russian diplomats after spy revelations in Estonia
   Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada, led the Russian Ambassador to talk about the withdrawal of accreditation of two members of the NATO Information Center in Moscow. This May 6, said AFP.
Denied accreditation diplomats were attached to the Canadian Embassy. Canadian authorities have announced that Moscow's decision to consider unproductive and regret about what happened. Canadian officials expect that the Russian Ambassador in Ottawa, explaining to them the situation.
Director of NATO Information Office in Moscow, the Canadian Embassy attache Isabelle François Bureau, and the second officer, Attaché Embassy of Canada, Mark Opgenort will soon be expelled from Russia. Thus the Russian authorities responded to the denial of accreditation of two members of the Russian Federation to NATO postpredstva - Head of political section of Victor Kochukova and attache postpredstva, secretary Basil Chizhova mission.
Kochukova and Chizhova deported from Brussels in late April. Officially, NATO announced that they were denied accreditation to some incompatible with the status of diplomatic activity. At the same time, the media linked the expulsion of Russians from the spy scandal in Estonia. In autumn 2008, the Estonian authorities had learned that a senior Defense Ministry Herman Simma was associated first with the KGB, and then - with the Russian special services. In doing so, Simma has access to NATO documents that were in Estonia. The court sentenced the spy to 12 and a half years' imprisonment.

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