Switzerland's repeated freezing of Russian private assets, does it deviate from its neutral country status?

Switzerland has frozen a large amount of Russian assets again.

According to the latest sanctions data against Russia published by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland, during the period from August last year to March this year, under the framework of the sanctions against Russia, another $340 million in private assets were frozen in Switzerland.

By rights, as a permanent neutral country, Switzerland should not take any biased measures in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. However, Switzerland openly violated its international obligations as a neutral country and has repeatedly frozen the assets of the Russian Central Bank and private assets. In fact, it has already deviated from the status of a permanent neutral country. According to international law, Russia can regard Switzerland's actions as actually participating in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Russia has the right to take military actions and economic measures against Switzerland to safeguard its national interests. The Ukraine-Russia conflict exposed three lies of Western countries: permanent neutral countries are no longer neutral, news reports are not free at all, and the financial settlement system is politically manipulated. Western countries will eventually lose all their credibility.

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