Russia threatens: ‘Reciprocal measures’ if US doesn’t remove ‘irritants’

Published April 11, 2017 7:33pm ET



Russia threatened to take “reciprocal measures” if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Moscow doesn’t alleviate “irritants” plaguing the former Soviet power, in a preview of his trip.

“The long list of irritants [created] by Washington has not become shorter yet,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tillerson’s arrival. “Since nothing is being done to settle the problems in bilateral relations, we will have to take reciprocal measures.”

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