Kerry raises harassment of U.S. diplomats in Moscow with Putin

Russian provocation and reconnaissance of U.S. negotiators in Moscow has expanded altogether and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the issue as of late with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the State Department said on Monday.

Kerry last raised the matter with Putin on March 24 this year, a State Department official said.

"He has raised it with President Putin," State Department representative Elizabeth Trudeau told a news preparation before, including: "We see an expansion and we consider it important."

Trudeau said badgering by Russian security operators and activity police had been an issue in the course of recent years, yet did not give points of interest of occurrences nor why it was raised with Putin.

Other Western international safe havens had reported the same conduct toward their negotiators positioned in Moscow, Trudeau included.

Washington stripped five of the six Russian privileged delegates of accreditations in January to strike back for badgering of its negotiators in Moscow. Accordingly, Russia's Foreign Ministry blamed the United States for inciting Russian negotiators in the United States and somewhere else.

Privileged emissaries are regularly U.S. nationals or green card holders who perform consular administrations in the interest of an outside government, a U.S. official said, saying the five were situated in California, Florida, Minnesota, Utah and Puerto Rico.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) welcomes U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia December 15, 2015.

Solicited whether provocation from U.S. negotiators happened just in Moscow, Trudeau said: "We can't decide out such badgering that could happen somewhere else. I simply don't have specifics on different nations."

In spite of collaboration amongst Moscow and Washington on the Iran atomic arrangement, pressures between the two nations have heightened since Russia attached the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and Moscow's expanding backing for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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