Borrell: In favor of the seizure of Russian funds for the reconstruction of Ukraine

The governments of its member countries The European Union they should consider to seize its foreign exchange reserves and other reimgs Russia in their jurisdiction, which are frozen, to cover the cost of its reconstruction Of Ukraine after the war, argued the head of European diplomacy, o Josep Borrell, during an interview he gave to the newspaper Financial Times.

The EU and the West in general have frozen part of Russia’s central bank foreign exchange reserves after the Russian army invasion of Ukraine on February 24, which Moscow calls a “special military operation.”

Josep Borrell said in an interview with FT that It would be easy for the EU to do what the US did with the funds of the Afghan central bank after the Taliban seized power in Kabul on the 15th of August.

“We have the money in our pockets and let someone explain to me why this is good for Afghanistan’s money but not for Russia’s,” he said.

Washington, according to the APE-MPE, has frozen the funds of the Central Bank of Afghanistan and intends to allocate part of it to provide assistance to the Afghan people and to keep another part to meet the demands of those who may file lawsuits against it. of Sunni fundamentalists.

Source: News Beast

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