A suspected Russian diplomat is apparently occupying the site of Moscow's proposed embassy Australia vetoed. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said a “bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security.”
Albanese said the issue would be “resolved,” but did not detail how.
“What they’re doing is diplomatic civil disobedience in terms of indicating their displeasure with the action of the Australian government,” Rothwell said. If the man is a diplomat, he could claim diplomatic immunity if detained by police, who would then have to set him free. “We actually support the law. Russia has not been real good at the law lately,” Albanese said, referring the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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