The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on theUnited States to ensure humane treatment and the swift return of the crew of aRussian oil tanker seized in the northern Atlantic Ocean after being pursuedfrom waters off Venezuela.
Separately, Russia’s Ministry of Transport said that “underthe 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, freedom of navigationapplies on the high seas, and no state has the right to use force againstvessels lawfully registered under another country’s jurisdiction.”
The United States announced that it had detained the Russianoil tanker in the northern Atlantic as part of its enforcement of sanctionstargeting oil shipments linked to Venezuela.
Earlier, the US Coast Guard also intercepted a tankercarrying Venezuelan oil, the Panama-flagged M Sophia, near the northeast coastof South America, the US officials said, in the fourth seizure in recent weeks.The tanker was fully loaded, according to records of Venezuela's state oilcompany PDVSA.
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