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UPDATE 3-Russia summons Swiss ambassador over motions to fund Ukraine reparations

Reuters
Updated ·1-min read

(Adds response from Swiss foreign ministry, paragraph 6)

MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry summoned Switzerland's ambassador on Tuesday over the Swiss parliament's approval of motions authorising the government to work on a way to seize and transfer Russian assets to fund reparations for Ukraine.

Russia summoned Ambassador Krystyna Marty Lang to protest at the narrowly passed Swiss motions which authorised the Swiss government to work on creating a reparations mechanism in international law for a country illegally attacked.

"Russia strongly condemns this step by the Swiss authorities that grossly violates the fundamental principles and norms of international law regarding state immunity," the foreign ministry said.

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"Any encroachment on Russian state property under the guise of any far-fetched 'reparative mechanism' would be nothing more than theft at the state level."

The ministry said Russia would retaliate if the Swiss plan was implemented.

Asked for comment, the Swiss foreign ministry confirmed only that Lang was summoned by the Russian foreign ministry on Tuesday "following a decision by the Swiss parliament regarding the use of frozen Russian assets".

Switzerland said last year that it had frozen an estimated 7.7 billion Swiss francs ($8.81 billion) in financial assets belonging to Russians under sanctions designed to punish Moscow following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow and Dave Graham in Zurich; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Timothy Heritage)