BELGRADE, April 19. /TASS/: The Montenegrin Foreign Ministry has apologized in Twitter for reporting earlier about the cutting of diplomatic ties with Russia.
"We apologize to the public for the grave mistake in a report published earlier erroneously announcing that a number of restrictions were put into action, instead of just being mentioned," the ministry’s press service said in a statement on Tuesday night.
On Monday, the Russian embassy in Montenegro told TASS that a note had been sent to the country’s Foreign Ministry demanding clarifications on the tweet where the Montenegrin Foreign Ministry said it was cutting diplomatic ties with Russia. Earlier on Monday, the Foreign Ministry published a statement by Foreign Minister Dorde Radulovic who announced the severance of diplomatic ties with Russia, however the tweet was removed a few hours later.
According to the report, Radulovic urged Montenegro’s state institutions to implement "the restrictions imposed by the government against Russia" at a meeting on the use of anti-Russian sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine. The republic’s Foreign Ministry commented on the tweet by publishing a list of measures ordered by the government, including "the breaking of diplomatic ties, a complete or partial severance of economic relations", and of contacts between the two countries’ logistics, postal and other services. A military embargo, restrictions on entry, investments, the receipt of payments and other sanctions were also on the list.
Following some users’ comments asking whether or not the country has cut its diplomatic contacts with Russia, the Montenegrin Foreign Ministry’s press service removed the Twitter post.
