Russia expels Georgian consul in Moscow

Georgia's Imedi television channel reported that Russian authorities decided to do so a month ago when Georgia did not let two Russian diplomats suspected of spying enter the country.

The matter concerns the fact that Georgia imposed a veto on rotation of the ordinary Russian embassy diplomats while Russia announced Georgian consul persona non grata. They had to continue working in the so-called Russian section of the Swiss embassy in Tbilisi because of a cut-off in diplomatic relations between Georgia and Russia last summer.

“Russia, perhaps, was expected to provide such reaction. Russia has always held the position of revenge,” Head of the National Security Council of Georgia Ekaterina Tkeshelashvili said. She also said Tbilisi has every right not to continue the authority of those Russians who can not be representatives of the diplomatic community.

As for Patradze, he is perplexed about his expulsion and said it was a reaction to his successful diplomatic activities in Moscow. “I can not understand it. Is this a response? But my counterpart continues to work in the Russian section of the Swiss embassy,” he said.

/Georgia Online/