📆 On June 26, Moldova's Ambassador to Russia Lilian Darii was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Russian Side conveyed a strong protest and issued a note verbale over Moldova’s gross violation of the fundamental provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. On June 25, diplomatic couriers of the Russian Foreign Ministry were subjected to hours-long detention at Chisinau airport. They were presented with deliberately unacceptable and unlawful demands to inspect diplomatic correspondence and “voluntarily” surrender their mobile communication devices. At the same time, diplomats of the Russian Embassy in Moldova were denied access to the restricted area of the airport to provide consular assistance to the Russian Foreign Ministry officials who had arrived. As a result, despite advance notification to the Moldovan side of their arrival, the diplomatic couriers were unable to enter the territory of Moldova and were forced to return home. ❗️ Moldova’s Ambassador to Moscow Lilian Darii was told that this constituted a gross violation of Article 27 of the 1961 Vienna Convention, under which diplomatic couriers “shall enjoy personal inviolability and shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention”, while the diplomatic bag “shall not be opened or detained”.