Poland seizes Russian high school building in Warsaw; Moscow’s Envoy says it is ‘illegal act’
The Hindu
Poland on April 29 said it had seized a high school building near Moscow’s embassy in Warsaw meant for the children of diplomats, a move the Russian envoy called “illegal”.
Poland on April 29 said it had seized a high school building near Moscow’s embassy in Warsaw meant for the children of diplomats, a move the Russian envoy called “illegal”.
The spat over the 1970s multi-storey building, nicknamed the “spy nest” by Warsaw citizens, has been going on for a year.
“This building belongs to the Warsaw City Hall,” Polish foreign ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told AFP, adding that the move followed a bailiff’s order.
The spokesman for the municipality was unavailable for comment.
Poland says there is a huge disparity in the number of diplomatic buildings each had in the other country.
“This is an illegal act. An intrusion on a diplomatic facility,” Moscow’s envoy, Sergei Andreyev, told the RIA Novosti news agency.
Andreyev said this was a “violation of Vienna’s convention of diplomatic relations.”
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