Russian Embassy in Latvia. Photo credit: World news / youtube.com
The Russian Embassy called the adoption of a law on the confiscation of the House of Moscow in Riga an unprecedented act of hostility. Diplomats are sure that serious retaliatory measures will definitely follow.
On January 11, the deputies of the Seimas supported the draft law on the confiscation of the cultural and business center in the final reading. Now its fate will be in the hands of the Cabinet of Ministers, which must make the decision by the end of March. There is a chance it will be sold at auction.
The embassy considers the parliament's decision a legal arbitrariness and an act of state robbery. The actions of the Latvian authorities violate the basic principles of international law, which guarantee the inviolability of the property of other countries, the commentary says.
The embassy also promised that Riga would be required to compensate for material damage and losses incurred as a result of this decision.
Riga is not ready to fulfill its international obligations, diplomats stressed. It creates a dangerous precedent, which makes it clear to foreign owners that in this Baltic republic they are not protected either by local laws or international treaties, the embassy noted.
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