The head of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, expressed the opinion that possible searches in the territory of the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in San Francisco, which are prepared by US special services, are the gross violation of the obligations of the American side under the Vienna Convention, Izvestia writes,. Kosachev wrote on his Facebook page: "The stated intentions and possible subsequent actions by the US authorities regarding the searches of the premises of the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco are an unequivocal, crude and unprecedented violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and the US obligations under this convention".

He also stressed that he resolutely denies the right to penetrate American citizens into the offices and living quarters of the consulate general, despite the fact that it no longer functions. "Newspaper. ru "notes that earlier the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova reported on the upcoming searches on the blocked diplomatic capacity of the Russian Federation in San Francisco. She clarified that the US intelligence services plan to visit, including the apartments of employees in the building of the consulate general.