Bank Doubts Strand Kuwaitis in Europe
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<i> Reuters</i>
GENEVA — Swiss banks are refusing to exchange Kuwaiti dinars, leaving hundreds of Kuwaiti vacationers not only unsure whether to return to a homeland now under Iraqi occupation but also short of money.
“We aren’t accepting dinars because we don’t know where the exchange rate will be established,” a spokesman for Union Bank of Switzerland said Friday.
Kuwaiti sources said hundreds of rich tourists in exclusive Geneva were now in financial straits.
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