Russia says will 'reply' after Iceland embassy closure | World News

Russia on Saturday mentioned it could "reply" after Iceland grew to become the primary nation to droop its embassy operations in Moscow.

"All of Reykjavik's anti-Russian actions will inevitably immediate a response," the Russian international ministry mentioned in a press release, accusing Iceland of "ruining" relations between the international locations.

"We'll take this unfriendly determination into consideration once we set up our relationships with Iceland sooner or later," the ministry added.

Iceland on Friday mentioned it could droop work at its embassy in Moscow as of August 1 and requested Russia to restrict its operations in Reykjavik.

"The present scenario merely doesn't make it viable for the small international service of Iceland to function an embassy in Russia," Overseas Minister Thordis Gylfadottir mentioned.

In a symbolic transfer, employees may very well be seen taking down the Icelandic flag hanging from the facet of the embassy in Moscow on Friday.

The Icelandic international ministry confused that the choice "doesn't represent a severance of diplomatic relations".

However since industrial, cultural and political ties with Russia have been "at an all-time low", sustaining embassy operations in Moscow was "now not justifiable," it mentioned.

The Nordic nation has had an embassy in Moscow since 1944 which grew to become a symbolic East-West assembly level in direction of the top of the Chilly Warfare.