THE Iceland announced on Tuesday that it was closing its embassy in Moscow because of him war in Ukraine and thus becomes the first country to take such a measure.
In early June, Iceland’s Foreign Minister Tordis Gylfandottir ruled that “the current situation” does not allow the small diplomatic delegation “to operate in Russia».
As the Athens-Macedonian Agency reports, Iceland is the first European country to take such a measure since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Reykjavik, however, clarifies that this is not a break in diplomatic relations.
“When conditions permit, Iceland will give priority to the resumption of activities of the Icelandic embassy in Moscow”Icelandic diplomacy clarified in a statement.
The representation of Iceland in Russia will now be done by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Reykjavik. The day after the Icelandic announcement, Moscow denounced “anti-Russian action” and promised to respond.
“We will take this unfriendly decision into account when we restore our relations with Iceland in the future,” the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in June.
Iceland, population 375,000, has maintained an embassy in Moscow since 1944, with a break in 1951-53.
Iceland was the symbolic site of the East-West meeting at the end of the Cold War with the 1986 summit between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Source: News Beast
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