Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Pierre-Alain Elchinger said the country would review its relations with Russia in 2023 without meeting with Moscow. reported that DEA News.
According to him, the new strategy will be based on the interests and priorities of Switzerland and there are no plans to involve other countries in this work.
Lilian Lay, Former State Secretary of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated At the time of the briefing, the Swiss side currently has no legal basis for the transfer of Russian assets frozen in the country to Kiev.
Guy Parmelin, head of the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (Minister), said that the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Kiev would be a violation of Swiss law.
In turn, the head of the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ignazio Cassis, said that the country does not exclude the use of frozen assets of the Russian Federation for the restoration of Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta
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