Moscow expects Swedish authorities to ensure inviolability of Russian trade mission - Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Russia expects the Swedish authorities will take necessary measures to ensure the inviolability of the Russian trade mission building and see an auction on this building's forced sale as a gross violation of international law.
"We presume that the Swedish authorities will take all necessary measures to ensure inviolability and security of the Russian mission in keeping with Swedish obligations under the 1969 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement in commenting on the auction on Tuesday.
The Swedish Enforcement Authority conducted the auction on February 18. "Russia does not recognize either these actions by the Enforcement Authority, which referred to the Swedish Supreme Court's ruling granting German businessman Franz Sedelmeier's lawsuit against Russia in 2011, or the court ruling itself, which Russia views as grossly violating international law," Lukashevich said.
