Nausėda calls for tighter sanctions against Russia

(24 May 2022)
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Davos - 24 May 2022
1. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda talking to journalist inside Congress center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gitanas Nausėda, Lithuanian President:
"It's not so easy to follow this way of this dark and dirty money, but we have to do this - to investigate and of course to freeze the assets as much as possible and then afterwards to find a legal framework to use them for restructuring or recovery or just rebuilding of Ukraine after the war."
3. Nausėda Lithuania speaking with reporter
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gitanas Nausėda, Lithuanian President:
"We have to fully isolate Russia from cultural, political, economic organisations. We have to be more decisive excluding Russia from SWIFT (financial messaging system). Yes, we did some partial steps, but this is not sufficient enough and we have to exclude or de-SWIFT more Russian banks then probably we could expect that Russian society will start to feel the pain."
5. Nausėda speaking with reporter
STORYLINE:
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda called on Tuesday for further sanctions against Russia as its invasion of Ukraine continued.
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Nausėda said he wanted Russia to be fully isolated from cultural, political and economic organisations.
He said that financial penalties, such as excluding key Russian banks out of the SWIFT financial messaging system, should go further.
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