The United States expelled two Russian officials on June 17 in response to an attack on U.S. diplomat in Moscow, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday.
In a tit-for-tat, Pakistan has expelled a Bangladeshi woman diplomat and asked her to leave the country by Thursday, days after a Pakistani woman diplomat was sent packing over accusations of having links with the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh militant group.
The U.S. envoy in India has expressed regret about the "circumstances" of the arrest of an Indian woman diplomat in New York last month on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her maid.
The arrest and alleged ill- treatment of an Indian woman diplomat in New York last week has escalated into a major diplomatic row between India and the United States, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday terming the incident as "deplorable'.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for an apology from the Netherlands for the arrest of a Russian diplomat in The Hague last weekend, Putin said during an Asian summit in Bali.
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