UBS chairman said the bank must engage in lobbying and warned against assuming lobbying has become excessive.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on the evening of the 16th it summoned the acting chargé d’affaires at the Indian High Commission to lodge a strong protest over what it called “highly provocative and unacceptable” actions by an Indian naval vessel on the 15th inside Pakistan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The ministry said the Indian ship made close-range provocative manoeuvres during the Pakistan Navy’s biennial exercises, causing contact between the two vessels, a serious breach of signed agreements and likely to heighten regional tensions. Pakistan urged India to comply with international law and bilateral accords aimed at preventing maritime incidents; Pakistan’s acting high commissioner in New Delhi will register a similar protest with India’s foreign ministry.

According to Iranian reports, Iran's deputy foreign minister and director-general for Western Europe, Ali Reza Yousefi, summoned Germany's ambassador in Tehran, Axel Wilhelm Dietmann, to lodge a formal protest over recent remarks by senior German officials and what Tehran described as interfering actions by the German embassy.