“I just want to convey that this is difficult and not as simple as it seems,” Jean-Pierre responded to a question from reporters about the US administration’s plans to confiscate Russian assets.
A White House spokeswoman said that after the start of a special military operation, Washington and its Western allies were able to freeze some $300 billion. However, future actions with these funds are complicated by the fact that most of the assets are located in other countries and not in the United States, says Jean-Pierre, reports RIA Novosti.
Commenting on the lack of a solution to this issue, he added that he could not speak on behalf of other states.
It was previously reported that ten Western legal experts from Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States recognized the confiscation of frozen Russian assets as legal. The lawyers recommended that the countries in which the blocked assets of the Russian Federation are stored be transferred to an international mechanism, which should deposit the funds, after which they are supposed to be transferred to Ukraine.
