A high ranking Swedish diplomat was declared persona non grata in Moscow and had to leave for Sweden, according to Sweden’s SVT Channel, which received the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s confirmation of the report, eurointegration.com.ua wrote.
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“This step [the diplomat’s expulsion] was taken after it was established that this embassy employee had been caught carrying out activities that contravened the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”, a ministry spokesman told Interfax on August. 4.
In a press release issued in Stockholm, the Swedish Overseas Ministry confirmed considered one of its high-ranking diplomats had been banished from the embassy in Moscow.
The vessel wasn’t found but Swedish security officials remain suspicious that the undersea intruders were sent by Moscow.
“I can only say it was recently”, Tegel noted. “This decision by Russian Federation will not improve relations between our countries”, Tegel added. “It happens now and then that diplomats have to leave the country, but it usually does not become public”.
“The responsibility for the consequences of this provocation lies squarely with Stockholm”, the statement said.
And in October 2014, Sweden launched a massive hunt for a foreign submarine, suspected to be Russian, in the Stockholm archipelago over an eight-day period.
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Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said in June that Sweden was increasing its military capabilities and exercises with allies in response to the resurgence of Russia’s military might, reported AFP.
