French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire leaves after a Defense Council on Ukraine crisis at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France February 24, 2022. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS
February 25, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that the option of cutting off Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system remained open, but that he viewed this as a “last resort”.
The United States and the European Union opted not to cut Russia off from SWIFT as part of toughened sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. But they could revisit that issue, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by John Stonestreet)
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