Penny Pritzker, US Special Representative for the Economic Recovery of Ukraine, explained why it is difficult to seize Russian assets and transfer them to Ukraine. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua.
As Pritzker noted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the process of seizing the Russian Federation’s frozen assets is “long and not easy” because such a decision requires the collective consent of all states where Russian assets are located. captured.
The special representative also emphasized the need for a legal basis.
According to him, it is wrong to think that this will be a panacea or that it will happen very quickly.
January 16 Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Vincent van Peteghem statedIt was stated that technical studies have begun in the European Union to implement the proposal put forward by the European Commission at the end of last year, that the revenues from the frozen assets of the Russian Federation be used in line with the interests of Ukraine.
Previously at the European Commission in the name The amount of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the European Union.