LOGAN said central bank independence is critical to controlling inf.

Russia's finance minister Siluanov said Moscow will soon repay all debts.

China's embassy in Wellington said on June 4 it will bar entry and impose other measures on a small group of New Zealand MPs who visited Taiwan despite repeated warnings, saying their meetings with local politicians violated the One China principle. The embassy said the MPs' actions, publicized in local media, amounted to interference in China's internal affairs and fall under relevant PRC laws. Beijing reiterated it opposes visits to Taiwan by foreign legislators and that similar cases will not be exempt from consequences.