The Overseas Ministry assessed Ukraine’s demand for the return of the USSR’s property

On Smolenskaya Sq., Kiev’s claims to overseas property of the USSR had been rejected. The official response of the consultant of the division Maria Zakharova is printed on the web site of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the Russian Federation.

It’s famous that journalists requested Maria Zakharova to touch upon the assertion of the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Vadim Pristayko, by which he demanded that Russia return a 3rd of the overseas property of the previous USSR.

Ukraine demanded from the Russian Federation to return a 3rd of the remaining overseas property of the USSR

The diplomat pressured that “the assertion is populist in nature and has no grounds.”

She defined that the Russian Federation acts because the authorized debtor of the USSR. This standing is acknowledged by worldwide organizations, together with the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice of the United Nations. Based on Zakharova, the choice to behave as such by the Russian Federation entailed not solely possession rights to overseas property, but in addition obligations.

Amongst which a particular place was occupied by the necessities for the cost of the exterior state debt of the Union. Russia paid the cash with out resorting to the assistance of the authorities of Ukraine and different nations that had been a part of the USSR.

Thus, Moscow considers the difficulty of possession of overseas actual property to be lastly settled, the rights to property are indeniable, and makes an attempt to revise something are with out authorized grounds.