Russia summoned the Swiss ambassador
| By summoning the Swiss ambassador, the Russian Foreign Ministry called Bern government's attempt to use Russian foreign assets as theft. |
report Mehr News Agency quoted by Sputnik, the Swiss ambassador in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that the Swiss Ambassador Christina Marty in Moscow regarding the decision of the Swiss Parliament to confiscate Russian assets.
The statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the summons was made to protest the decision of the Swiss parliament to initiate the legal basis of the mechanism that allows the confiscation of state assets.
The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that the Russian side strongly condemns this action of the Swiss authorities and considers it a clear violation of the fundamental principles and norms of international law regarding the immunity of governments. does.
In this statement, it was emphasized that any violation of Russian state property under the title of compensation mechanism will be nothing but theft at the state level.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier warned the Western countries that if the United States and European Union countries seize hundreds of billions of this country’s assets abroad, Moscow’s reaction will be very harsh.
After the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the United States and its allies banned transactions with the Russian Central Bank and Ministry of Finance and froze about 300 billion dollars of Russian assets in the West.
