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The Netherlands offered a formal apology to Moscow for police detention of a Russian diplomat in The Hague, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
"On behalf of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans formally apologized to Russia for the violation of the international law, in particular the Vienna Convention, in connection with the detention by the Dutch police of a minister- councilor of the Russian embassy in the Hague, Dmitry Borodin," ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
The Vienna Convention regulates diplomatic relations between nations, including diplomatic immunity.
According to the spokesman, the Dutch foreign minister made the apology to Roman Kolodkin, Russian ambassador to the Netherlands.
Borodin was reportedly "attacked" in his home in the Hague on Sunday by "people in police uniform" and held to a police station overnight.
Dutch child protection services said earlier that they were taking the action because they received a complaint from Borodin's neighbor over the diplomat's treatment of his own children.
The Russian Embassy said the complaint was "one of the pretexts " for the incident, and Russian President Vladimir Putin had earlier asked for an apology from the Netherlands for the incident.
The case came as the Netherlands and Russia are in a standoff over Moscow's seizure of Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise that was sailing under the Dutch flag. The Netherlands has threatened Russia with legal actions.
