INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia&s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has slammed the EU chief Josep Borrell&s idea of seizing Russian government reserves, stating it
would be nothing short of theft.In an interview with FT, Borrell suggested seizing Russia&s frozen reserves and using them to cover the
costs of rebuilding Ukraine once the conflict is over.In response to this, Lavrov said at a press conference during a visit to Algeria that
&it seems fair to say that this is a theft they [the Western nations] do not even try to conceal,Such actions &become a sort of a habit for
the West,& he added, pointing to the fact that the US had frozen funds &belonging to Afghanistan, the Afghan Central Bank.Washington has no
plans to spend them on the needs of the Afghan people ''that have suffered the consequences of the 20-year-long NATO presence& on their
soil, Lavrov said.Moscow would continue to oppose America&s attempts to &erode the principles the UN was based on& and to create a unipolar
world order, Lavrov added.Following the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Western nations froze around half of Russia&s
international reserves, around $300 billion.The post ‘Theft& of foreign assets becoming a ‘habit& of the West: Russia&s FM first
