Suspended from their jobs, high school teachers chant “we are people, not numbers” during a protest in front of the Greek Parliament yesterday.
MOSCOW: Russia said yesterday it will boycott maritime court hearings sought by the Netherlands in a bid to free 30 crew members of a Greenpeace ship who were detained during a protest against Arctic oil drilling.
The announcement marks another step in an escalating feud between the two close economic partners that has also witnessed the brief detention of a Russian diplomat in The Hague and Moscow’s threat to ban some Dutch imports.
The Russian foreign ministry said Moscow “has informed the Netherlands and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea... that it does not intend to take part in the tribunal’s hearings”.
It added that Russia “remains open to settling the arising situation” without specifying what future negotiations it intended to pursue. AFP
