Jens Stoltenberg
Luxembourg announced on Wednesday that it has chose to call back its ambassador to Moscow for consultations in the context of Moscow's alleged role in a nerve agent attack against a former double agent in the UK.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on Tuesday joined the parade of nations expelling Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, slashing Moscow's staff at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels by a third.
However, she also stressed Moscow would not abandon strategic stability talks with Washington.
Two dozen countries, including the US, many European Union nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, have ordered more than 150 Russian diplomats out this week in a show of solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
On Thurday, the hospital where the two are being treated said that Yulia, 33, was "improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition", while 66-year-old Sergei remained in a critical but stable condition.
British authorities have alleged that Russian Federation had the ability, motive and precedent to utilize the Novichok nerve agent that poisoned the Skripals.
Referencing the US' closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, a tweet from the account of Russia's United States embassy polls readers on which USA consulate the Russian government should shut down.
Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats last week and Russia ordered retaliatory expulsions.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Washington of "colossal blackmail" and said there were "few independent countries" left in modern Europe.
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Meanwhile at the UN, US Ambassador Nikki Haley called out Moscow for weakening a proposed cease-fire and helping the Assad regime in its brutal assault in key parts of the country.
"The West must understand that the anti-Russian campaign has no future", Russian Ambassador Grigory Logvinov told reporters in Canberra. Besides the U.S. 14 European Union countries also expelled Russian Diplomats.
"The Foreign Ministry expresses solidarity with the United Kingdom, and shares the stance of the UK and worldwide community on this issue and therefore declares undesirable the presence in Georgia of one staff member of the Russian Interests Section at Switzerland's Embassy in Tbilisi", it said in a statement. Following his signing of a weapons deal to arm Ukrainians in their country's battle against Russian-supported separatists, Trump told his aides to avoid publicly flaunting the decision.
"The PM said the U.S. had delivered a very strong response and welcomed the breadth of worldwide action in response to Russia's reckless and brazen behaviour - with 26 countries now putting expulsions in place". He did not rule out further measures.
Police officers stand guard outside the home of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
Estonia, Latvia, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Sweden and Romania each expelled one Russian.
"Their aim is to divide, and what we are seeing is the world uniting behind the British stance - and that in itself is a great victory and sends an exceptionally powerful message to the Kremlin and President Putin". Lithuania and the Czech Republic said they would expel three, and Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands two each, according to the Guardian.
Ukraine expelled 13 Russian diplomats, Canada, France, Germany and Poland each threw four Russian diplomats out of the country.
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