Lavrov called the blocking of US assets of states a violation of the rights of citizens

He said this at a press conference following talks with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faria.

“We agreed that the US actions to block the assets of sovereign states on foreign accounts is not just an open robbery of objectionable regimes in the spirit of the Wild West, but a gross violation of the socio-economic rights of citizens,” the minister said.

Earlier, the US Treasury Department said that in 100 days, the assets of the Central Bank of Russia and Russians under sanctions in the amount of more than $330 billion were blocked or frozen.

In April, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov noted that the Russian side regards the freezing of its reserves abroad as theft.