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Grushko: Russia does not intend to close European embassies on its territory

2022-05-10T06:26:28.645Z


Moscow, SANA- The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it does not intend to close European embassies in Moscow in response to (etc


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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it does not intend to close European embassies in Moscow in response to possible new "unfriendly steps" by the European Union against it.

"It is not in our tradition to take such a step, because we believe that the work of diplomatic missions is important," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told reporters in response to a question in this regard, RIA Novosti news agency quoted him as saying. "We have not started after the diplomatic war and the expulsion campaign."

In the same context, Grushko stressed that the proposal of the European Union Commissioner for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell to confiscate Russia's reserves of gold and foreign currency frozen in Europe under the pretext of "reconstruction of Ukraine" is illegal and would greatly undermine confidence in Europe.

And the President of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, revealed that as a result of Western sanctions on Moscow, Russian reserves of gold and foreign currency worth $300 billion were frozen.

"Such a step will destroy the foundations on which international relations are based, and if such decisions are taken, it will harm the Europeans themselves and the financial system and undermine confidence in Europe in particular and the West in general because such a step is illegal and is based on the law of the jungle," Grushko said.

Since the start of the special military operation launched by Russia in Ukraine to protect the residents of Donbass from the crimes of the Ukrainian regime, Western countries have imposed illegal sanctions, some of which targeted the Bank of Russia, in addition to freezing Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves in Europe.

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Source: sena

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