Saturday, June 2, 2007

Tbilisi Firm on Russia’s WTO Entry Terms

Russian negotiators have failed to convince their Georgian counterparts to soften their stance over Russia’s WTO membership terms during the talks on May 31.

Tamar Kovziridze, the Georgian Deputy Economy Minister, who was negotiating with the chief Russian negotiator from the Economy Ministry, Maksim Medvedkov, for seven hours in Tbilisi, said Georgia is not against Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). “But we want Russia to follow its commitments undertaken back in 2004,” she added. [More]

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