Opposition politician calls for Belarus to be disconnected from SWIFT


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  • Tuesday, 25 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Pavel Latushko, former General Director of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre and representative of the Coordination Council for members of the Belarusian opposition, walks to the investigation committee in Minsk, Belarus August 25, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

(Corrects to show Latushko is Belarusian)

WARSAW (Reuters) - Belarus should be cut off from the SWIFT system for cross-border payments, opposition politician Pavel Latushko said, as he called for tougher sanctions against President Alexander Lukashenko's regime after the arrest of a dissident journalist.

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