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Qatar expels Russian diplomat
DOHA: Qatar has declared the first secretary at the Russian embassy "persona non grata" and given him 24 hours to leave, a foreign ministry spokesman here announced Wednesday, amid a spat over the murder of a former Chechen president.
'First secretary Alexander Vitisov has been declared persona non grata, ... and asked to leave the country within 24 hours,' the spokesman told the official Qatar News Agency. Moscow had been notified Tuesday, he added. 'I was expecting something like this, but I've not received anything official yet," Moscow's ambassador Victor Koudryavtsev said. 'This person will leave if it is Qatar's decision.'
Next, Russia will expel a Qatar diplomat of equal rank, they will exchange turse notes for a while, and sooner or later a deal will be struck behind the scenes.

Posted by: Steve 2004-03-24
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