The Consulate General of Russia in Seattle is finally closed: all documents and things were taken out of the building

All things and documents were taken out of the Consulate General of Russia in Seattle, it is finally closed. This was announced by RIA Novosti Consul-Wede Hulit Aisin. Thus, diplomats followed the instructions of the American authorities and released the building within the specified period - until the end of April 1.

According to Aisin, the State Department’s employees were offered to rise and inspect the premises, but they refused. They intend to check the building on Monday, April 2. “The consul will be present - in case there are suddenly claims. But I doubt that they will be,” said Hulit Aisin.

All documents and things were transported from the building to the residence of the Genconsul. There began the work of the headquarters, which will prepare the export of things to other diplomatic departments and the conservation of the building.

Earlier, Halit Aisin, to the question of the fate of the diplomatic station of the closed consultation, said that "the employees who have the end of the business trip go to Moscow - there are two people." "All the rest are distributed from the foreign countries that are located in the United States: the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Houston and in New York and the Russian Embassy in Washington," he said last Saturday Interfax .

On March 26, the US presidential administration Donald Trump announced the decision to send 60 Russian diplomats and close the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Seattle in connection with the situation around the poisoning in the British city of Salisbury, ex-GRU employee Sergei Skripal and his daughter, in which London accused Moscow. The American side also demanded to free up the building of the RF General Consul of the Russian Federation in Seattle, which is Russian diplomity, until April 25.

Measures were taken as a manifestation of solidarity with the UK in the Skripal case. The day before, Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow.

Russia, as a response, ordered to leave the country of 60 American diplomats, and also withdrew consent to the work of the US Consulate General in St. Petersburg. The US Consulate General in the Northern capital ceased to work the day before. By the end of the day of March 31, American diplomatsleft the building on Furshtatskaya Street.

In addition to the United States, the decision to expel Russian diplomats and other diplomatic steps made a number of countries. On March 30, Moscow reported as mirror measures about the expulsion of diplomats of those European countries that declared by persons non grata of Russian diplomatic officers in solidarity with London.

On March 4, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious on a bench in the center of Solcbury. According to the British authorities, they were poisoned by the nerve gas of the Novice family. London accused Russia of involvement in the incident, motivating this by the fact that a combat substance of this type was developed in the USSR. Russia rejects the accusations of the British side, emphasizing that no evidence was presented.

Sergey and Julia Skripali remain in the Salisbury hospital. Last week, it became known that the condition of the 33 -year -old daughter of a double agent improved - she talks and lives on her own. In Russia, the investigating authorities also investigate the incident with the poisoning of a citizen of the Russian Federation. In mid -March, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of the poisoning of Julia Skripal under Part 3 of Art. 30, p. "E", part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("attempted murder committed in a generally hazardous way").