Ambassador: in Australia, no one supports the idea of disabling the RF from SWIFT
In Australia, in fact, no one supports the idea off Russia from the international SWIFT system, said in an interview Last news Australian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Paul myler.
In the autumn of last year started to sound the danger of disabling the Russian credit organizations from the system of interbank transfers SWIFT, through which payment job for more than 6 trillion dollars, and it involved more than 10 thousand financial institutions in 210 countries. The system itself is in October, said that under pressure from a number of countries, insisting on its accession to the sanctions, but does not want to succumb.
"I'm sure no one actually supports this idea. It would be a very serious decision that instantly would care practice all Western organizations from Russia. Without SWIFT, you just can't live a normal work, " mailer.
He said that he knew about the controversy on the question of a possible shutdown of the Russian Federation from SWIFT. But the purpose of punishment never had a desire to punish ordinary people, drew the attention of the Australian Ambassador.
according to him, If the case goes to off Russia from SWIFT, It will cause irreparable harm to the economy and not in the future, but right here and now." Australia certainly would not want that. It's like a nuclear bomb for the economy. None of this would have wished, neither the EU nor the United States, " added mailer.
"If we continue to see a deterioration, then there are other options for sanctions against Russia is not as hard as disabling SWIFT. But about It I can't tell You. But, believe me, no doubt there are other steps we can take towards Russia, to disable the SWIFT system ", - He concluded.
Western countries since March has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices began in December limits, when the head of the U.S. announced an economic blockade of the Crimea, and in the sanctions List included a number of famous figures from the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, first fell under the sentence, the material of the Fins news
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