Slovakia to recall its ambassador to Moscow

28 March 2018, 6:01 pm

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Slovakia’s foreign minister says the government has decided to recall its ambassador to Moscow for consultations over the nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.

But Miroslav Lajcak says after a meeting of the country’s Security Council that the government is not yet ready to join two dozen other countries in expelling Russian diplomats over the incident.

Although Lajcak calls Slovakia’s move “a serious diplomatic step,” the British ambassador to Bratislava, Andrew Garth, is not impressed.

Garth has told the Slovak public television and tweeted that the seriousness of the attack “requires a firm response.”

The ambassador adds that “I acknowledge the decision. But cannot say I am not disappointed.”

— AP