{"id":8860,"date":"2021-01-18T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2021-01-18T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:24:28","slug":"russia-expels-two-dutch-diplomats-in-tit-for-tat-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/russia-expels-two-dutch-diplomats-in-tit-for-tat-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia expels two Dutch Diplomats in Tit-for-Tat Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8861\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Russia-NL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Russia-NL.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Russia-NL-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad; Monitoring Desk &#8211; Moscow said Monday it was expelling two Dutch diplomats from the country in response to a &#8220;provocative&#8221; decision by the Netherlands in December to remove two Russian embassy staff over spying allegations.<\/h3>\n<h3>AFP reports that Moscow summoned Dutch charge d&#8217;affaires Joost Reintjes, the foreign ministry said in a statement, telling him that two Dutch diplomats had two weeks to leave the country.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The Russian side, guided by the principle of reciprocity, decided to expel from Russia two diplomatic employees of the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow,&#8221; the statement said.<\/h3>\n<h3>In December Dutch security officials said the country was expelling two alleged Russian spies working as diplomats after &#8220;rolling up&#8221; a spy network that targeted hi-tech industries.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Russian officers from the foreign SVR intelligence service had built up a &#8220;substantial&#8221; network of sources that could have damaged national interests, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) said.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Russian foreign ministry said Monday the allegations were &#8220;unfounded and slanderous&#8221;.<\/h3>\n<h3>Relations between The Hague and Moscow have been strained since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down in July 2014 over a part of eastern Ukraine held by Russian-backed separatists.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Netherlands has said Moscow was responsible for the disaster, in which 298 people were killed, 196 of them Dutch.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; Monitoring Desk &#8211; Moscow said Monday it was expelling two Dutch diplomats from the country in response to a &#8220;provocative&#8221; decision by the Netherlands in December to remove two Russian embassy staff over spying allegations. AFP reports that Moscow summoned Dutch charge d&#8217;affaires Joost Reintjes, the foreign ministry said in a statement, telling him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,46],"tags":[626,375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}