Switzerland’s president plans to meet in September with the country’s business leaders and bankers to discuss threats by U.S. financial officers to impose sanctions if negotiations to settle Holocaust-era claims break down. Flavio Cotti will use the meeting to plan a Swiss response to threats, according to a spokeswoman at the Swiss Foreign Ministry.
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