NEW DELHI: As toxic air lays siege to Delhi, the city's diplomatic community seems to have had enough. While none of the major missions here are yet contemplating cutting staff strength, envoys have been distressed by the government's silence over the issue and have now knocked on the doors of the Dean of Diplomatic Corps , Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos , to take up the issue with MEA.Ambassador of Dominican Republic, Castellanos has sought time with the foreign ministry to convey the grievances of envoys who apparently want to know from MEA if the government is seriously doing anything to deal with the situation.The meeting is likely to happen in the next few days, Indian government sources said. When TOI contacted Castellanos, he confirmed he had been indeed approached by many ambassadors over the issue. He said he was going to discuss the situation with MEA even though he fully understood the ministry's position that it had nothing to do with the deterioration of Delhi's air quality."I have been receiving many calls from HOMs (heads of missions) concerned about their health and the seriousness of the air pollution in the past few days in Delhi, and I will bring it up before the COP (chief of protocol in MEA) in my next meeting with him," Castellanos told TOI."I am also trying to find out what other countries have done with similar situation in the past in order to also bring some ideas to the table, since I know it is a problem that the MEA cannot find an easy solution to. It is something that does not only affect the diplomatic community but all the people living in the city," he added.While it's not clear how the MEA can be of any help to the diplomats in dealing with air pollution, the ambassador of a central European country said on condition of anonymity that the ministry should at least publicly issue a statement addressing the diplomatic community on pollution.Castellanos said he understood MEA's limitations and was open to discussing new ideas with the ministry to help improve the situation for the diplomatic community. Sources said that the ministry could consider issuing an advisory for diplomats in the next few days if the air quality remains poor.Diplomatic sources said countries like Singapore, Germany and Israel were not considering cutting down staff strength even though they remained worried about the situation and were taking all precautionary measures possible, like increased use of air purifiers.In a blog post on Tuesday, the Costa Rican ambassador, Mariela Alvarez , had revealed that she was suffering from upper respiratory infection caused by the polluted Delhi air and that she had shifted to Bengaluru to recover.