Letter issued Motu Proprio by Mahat Cerasuolo,
President
of the People of Mother Earth – PMT –
To the International
Community,
By virtue
of the irrevocable duty incumbent upon the People of Mother Earth to
uphold and safeguard the international legal order — founded on the
supreme principles of peace, state sovereignty, equity, justice among
nations, and the protection of minorities — I hereby solemnly
express formal opposition to the initiative recently announced by
institutions of the European Union and certain of its Member States,
concerning the use of frozen assets belonging to the Russian
Federation for the purchase of weaponry intended for use in the
ongoing conflict on Ukrainian soil, or in other operations directed
against the Russian Federation, or in any case for the procurement of
military equipment.
It must be
recalled with due rigour that the military operation undertaken by
the Russian Federation was publicly declared as a protective measure
for the Russian-speaking communities residing in Ukraine —
communities whose suffering, discrimination, and persecution had long
since been the subject of formal complaints brought before the
international community. The developments leading to such
intervention unfolded in a context marked by the emergence of a
Ukrainian regime following a coup d’état, heavily influenced by
external actors, notably the United States and the United Kingdom,
and by the systemic marginalisation of Russian-speaking populations
through repression and territorial militarisation.
The
negligence of international bodies and of the States entrusted with
the guardianship of the Charter of the United Nations, in failing to
act in defence of linguistic and cultural minorities in Ukraine, has
contributed to the emergence of a crisis now unilaterally portrayed
as aggression — obscuring prior responsibilities and ignoring
binding international obligations regarding the protection of
populations.
In this
complex framework, the sanctions adopted by the European Union since
2014 and reinforced in 2022 are based on specific legal instruments:
-
Council
Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014, which imposes the freezing of
assets and economic resources of individuals and entities deemed
responsible for undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity;
-
Council
Regulation (EU) 2022/263, which extends these measures in
response to the Russian intervention in separatist regions.
These
instruments explicitly provide for the freezing, and
not the confiscation, of assets. Legal ownership remains with the
sanctioned party. Freezing, as a precautionary measure of an
economic-financial nature, cannot be transformed into a means of
financing military activity, lest it constitute a breach of
fundamental principles of international law.
The course
of action proposed by the European Union and certain of its Member
States — namely, the permanent use of these assets for the
acquisition and supply of weapons intended to be deployed against the
State to which those assets belong — constitutes a serious
violation of:
-
The
principle of sovereign immunity, enshrined in the
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of
States and Their Property (2004), Article 21(1)(c);
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The
provisions of the Articles on Responsibility of States for
Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA), particularly
Articles 49–54, which govern countermeasures, requiring that they
be temporary, proportionate, reversible, and exclusively aimed at
restoring legality;
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The
prohibition on the use of force, as laid down in
Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations,
which also covers indirect use through coercive economic
instruments;
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The
principles of legality and good faith, which
undergird the entire structure of international law;
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The
principle of State property rights, which forbids
arbitrary appropriation of public assets of a sovereign State;
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The
principle of minority protection and prevention
of persecution, both essential to any international
community grounded in law and justice;
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The
legal distinction between asset freezing (a
containment measure) and confiscation (an
appropriation requiring a recognised legal title or judicial
decision).
It must be
emphasised that the attempt to transfer ownership of frozen assets
for military purposes constitutes not only a fraud upon
property rights, but also a form of disguised
economic warfare, with destabilising consequences for the
entire global legal and financial system. Such conduct is
incompatible with prevailing jurisprudence and United Nations
practice, which does not endorse permanent confiscation of State
assets except by virtue of a multilateral agreement or an
international judicial decision.
The People
of Mother Earth, acting in the name of peace, justice, and historical
truth, hereby call upon the international community to:
-
Reject
any initiative involving the use of frozen assets for military
purposes;
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Initiate
an international legal inquiry into the origins, legitimacy, and
consequences of the coercive measures adopted;
-
Safeguard
the sovereign immunity of public property and central banks of third
States;
-
Reactivate
multilateral dialogue mechanisms for the peaceful resolution of the
crisis in Ukraine;
-
Suspend
the enforcement of any measure that would effect the irrevocable
transfer of frozen assets for military ends.
This Letter
constitutes an urgent appeal to the juridical conscience of the
world, for the proposed course of action — if implemented — would
amount to multiple violations of international law, a threat to
global stability, and an irreversible precedent in the conduct of
inter-State relations.
May peace,
legality, and the respect for historical truth prevail over
propaganda, over the arbitrary use of law, and over militaristic
self-interest. The People of Mother Earth stand as a juridical
sentinel of the international community and firmly demand: justice,
truth, legality.
Neptune
– Rome
29 October 2025
President of the People of Mother
Earth
Mahat Cerasuolo