State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a briefing that Russia has more diplomats in the United States than Americans in Russia. DEA News.
“We count on the same number in Moscow as the Russians in the US,” he said.
According to Price, it is necessary to apply the principle of reciprocity.
This is the principle of reciprocity that we hope to embody in our diplomatic relations all over the world.”
He also expressed hope that the United States will make progress in the work of diplomatic missions. As the State Department representative clarified, “There are more people at Russian diplomatic missions in the United States than at ours in Russia,” not counting the staff of the UN permanent mission.
Price also noted that Russia has imposed restrictions on the number of personnel in the US diplomatic mission, which limits the capacity of the US diplomatic mission.
Former Russian diplomatic mission in the USA decreased 27 more diplomats. The Russian embassy described such actions as a hostile act against Moscow. The embassy reminded that over the past four years, more than 120 representatives of the Russian diplomatic mission have been expelled from the United States.