Today, Tuesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the transfer of Moroccan tanks being modernized by the Czech Republic to the combat zone in Ukraine “a flagrant violation of international arms trade law.”
“Moscow considers the seizure by the Czech Republic of Moroccan tanks, which are being modernized in the country, for transfer to Ukraine a gross violation of international law,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
He also considered it “another evidence of a hostile, anti-Russian course on the part of the Czech authorities, in which Prague does not hesitate to violate the basic norms of international law governing the arms trade and the confiscation of other people’s property.”
Before the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the Kingdom of Morocco signed a contract with the Czech company Excalibur Army for the modernization of 130 T-72B tanks purchased by Morocco in Belarus between 1999 and 2001. foreign affairs.
Of these tanks, 56 were returned to Morocco, while the remaining 74 tanks were “confiscated for subsequent transfer to Ukraine.”
Not interested in this conflict
And Morocco denied in any way its participation in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and Foreign Minister Nasser Burita said in March last year that the Kingdom has nothing to do with this conflict and is not a party to it, and we did not contribute to it in any way.
Burita stressed that Rabat’s position is based on four principles, “the first of which is that Morocco supports the sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity and does not damage the territorial integrity of the United Nations Member States, and secondly, Morocco is always against the use of violence to resolve disputes; and thirdly, Morocco has always adhered to a policy of constructive good neighborliness between neighboring countries and that neighborhood issues cannot be resolved through the use of force. Fourth, Morocco has always respected international law and the United States of America. the Charter of Nations in dealing with such matters.
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