Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials were contacted by the Russian ambassador. [15077/18]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 136, reference No. 14154-18, of 28 March 2018. Since then, on 2 April 2018, the Russian Ambassador contacted the Secretary General of my Department to advise him of Russia’s decision to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. The meeting took place on 4 April 2018.

On 12 April 2018, following a request from the Russian Embassy, the Ambassador met a senior official in my Department to outline his government’s position on the recent announcement by the US Department of the Treasury of the imposition of sanctions against a number of Russian individuals and their companies.