Moldovan ambassador summoned to Russian Foreign Ministry

The Moldovan ambassador to Moscow Lilian Dariy, who was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, was informed about Chisinau's gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in connection with the detention of diplomatic couriers of the Russian diplomatic mission at the airport of the Moldovan capital.

This is stated in a message from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"On June 26, the Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the Russian Federation, Dariy, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a decisive protest was declared and a verbal note was handed over in connection with the gross violation by the Moldovan side of the fundamental provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961," the message says.

"Dariy was pointed out the gross violation of Article 27 of the 1961 Vienna Convention, according to which diplomatic couriers 'enjoy personal inviolability and are not subject to arrest or detention in any form,' and diplomatic mail 'is not subject to either opening or detention,'" the Foreign Ministry emphasized.

Source: TASS