Lukashenko appreciated the possibility of disconnecting Belarus from SWIFT

“There are even more people willing to disconnect Russia from SWIFT.

So, if they want to get problems for themselves in connection with this, they can get them, ”TASS quotes the president.

Thus, he answered the question of under what conditions and whether it is possible to disconnect Belarus from the SWIFT system at all.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the possibility of disconnecting Belarus from SWIFT, noted the need to develop its own payment mechanisms, independent of the West.

As the ex-presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya stated in November 2020, the opposition is discussing the possibility of "disconnecting Lukashenka's regime from the SWIFT system."

The National Bank of Belarus stressed that they see no objective reasons for revising the existing format of relations between Belarusian banks and the SWIFT system.