Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn confirmed Tuesday that the grand duchy will not be taking any action on its own against Russian diplomats.

A number of countries have reacted to the recent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil by expelling Russian diplomats.

London has accused Moscow of ordering the attack on Skripal, after it was discovered that the nerve agent used to poison the former spy was only produced by Russia.
Australia is the latest country to follow suit, expelling two diplomats. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gave them seven days to leave the country. In a coordinated move, over 20 countries have so far expelled more than 110 Russian diplomats.

Russia has rejected the blame and has threatened to retaliate.

Does Luxembourg intend to follow suit?

On Tuesday morning, RTL journalists asked Jean Asselborn, the foreign affairs minister, about this. He is currently on a visit to Armenia.

Asselborn issued his reply in a statement:

"Luxembourg is 100% supportive of Great Britain. What happened there is extremely serious. The EU decided, together with Luxembourg, to call the EU ambassador to Moscow back for a month. This action is understood by everyone and the whole of the EU agrees with it.

In Luxembourg, there is but a small number of Russian diplomats. After a lot of consideration, there is no reason to believe that there are any Russian spies, or people working against Luxembourgish interest, amongst those diplomats, not by any stretch of the imagination."