ALGIERS, May 10. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has castigated as a theft the idea of EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to seize frozen Russian assets in order to hand them over to Ukraine.
"[This proposal] is, so to speak, a theft, which they are not even trying to conceal," he said on Tuesday at a news conference wrapping up his visit to Algeria.
Lavrov castigated the West for freezing the reserves of Afghanistan’s Central Bank, stating that the Western countries are not willing to allocate those funds for the needs of the Afghans.
"They have frozen the money, which belongs to Afghanistan, to the Afghan Central Bank, in America. And they want it to go not for the needs of the people of Afghanistan, who have suffered the implications of the NATO countries’ 20-year presence, but they want it to go for some other purposes which are not associated with the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s economy," he added.
The minister is convinced that the European Union, which has no foreign policy of its own, relies entirely on Washington’s line. He advised the EU foreign policy chief not to forget that he "is the top diplomat in the European Union, but not the military chief."
"However, we may soon see that this position of the European Union’s top diplomat will be abolished, since the European Union virtually has no foreign policy of its own, being in full solidary with the approaches imposed by the United States," he said.