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The Russian mission has already been reduced once, when seven of its members were ejected following the 2018 poisoning by the nerve agent Novichok on a former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in Britain . Requests for accreditation from three other Russian diplomats were refused.

The NATO-Russia Council has barely functioned amid tensions fueled by Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia in 2014, continued support for pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine and developments in weapons, including missiles.

US President Joe Biden has taken a much firmer tone against Russian President Vladimir Putin than his predecessor Donald Trump.

Another NATO official told AFP that the NATO-Russia Council “remains an job function email database important platform for dialogue” and said that a proposal early last year to hold another meeting of the forum “is vaild”.

“The ball is in Russia’s court,” the official said.

Sky News reported that the NATO decision came after information came to light in April about deadly explosions at a Czech ammunition depot in 2014 which Prague said involved two Russian spies – identified as allegedly involved in the poisoning of Skripal.

This incident between the Czech Republic and Russia led to the mutual expulsion of dozens of European and Russian diplomats and other embassy staff.The French ambassador returns to Australia to “redefine the terms of the relationship”
Paris: France will return its ambassador to Australia in Canberra following a bitter dispute over a new defense pact that sank a $ 90 billion submarine contract.