Gennady Gatilov. File photoGENEVA, Jul 29One of the Swiss banks blocked the personal account of Russia's permanent representative to the UN Geneva office Gennady Gatilov, the permanent mission told RIA Novosti. post-representations.
The West blocked and froze Russian assets worth $330 billion»The situation is also aggravated by artificial obstacles in the daily life of our diplomatic mission. A number of banks, insurance companies and car maintenance companies, with which we had long-standing partnerships, decided to abandon the contracts we had with us, at the same time, frankly speaking, the reason is because we are from Russia. Even the personal account in the local bank of the Russian permanent representative in Geneva, which was used, among other things, to cover medical expenses, was blocked,» the permanent mission said. They added that the bank account was blocked «in connection with the official status of the head of the diplomatic mission.» The diplomatic mission stressed that it has become more difficult for Russian diplomats and other officials arriving at various UN meetings and other events in Switzerland to fulfill their professional duties.
The Federation Council called on Bulgaria to respond firmly to the blocking of accounts of the Russian embassy «(Introduced — ed.) bans on direct flights Moscow-Geneva, the tightening by our Swiss colleagues of the previous practice of issuing official visas and other unfriendly measures,» the permanent mission explained. that the Swiss authorities are unable to provide an air route for the overflight of high-ranking Russian officials, and recalled the cancellation of the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Geneva due to the ban on the flight of his aircraft in the airspace of a number of EU countries. «In the aggregate, these kinds of «obstacles» hinder the normal functioning of our mission in Geneva. We hope that the Swiss authorities will reconsider this unseemly position and return to normal practice in diplomatic communication in accordance with the Vienna Convention of 1961,» the diplomatic mission concluded.
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