The U.S. Consulate General in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok can be closed by mid-spring 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s representative in Vladivostok, Andrei Brovarets, said.
"This [the Consulate General’s closure] was a unilateral decision of the United States, which can be implemented in its final form by mid-spring 2021, with all formalities observed," TASS cited him as saying.
"On a personal note, I can only express hope that the new U.S. president’s administration will review it, especially because this decision runs counter to general objective trends in the development of the Primorye Territory’s international cooperation with foreign partners," the Primorye region government quoted Brovarets as saying in a statement.
In December 2020, then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the decision to close the U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok and suspend the work of Consulate General in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
