This file photo of December 14, 2005 shows members of international relief group Oxfam wearing masks of (L-R) British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and German chancellor Angela Merkel walking past the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue for the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conferences.
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Russia to Join WTO by July 2008
Russia will be probably the WTO member from July 1, 2008, said Andrei Kushnirenko, deputy head of the trade negotiations’ department at the RF Economic Development and Trade Ministry. The bureaucrat made the forecast in Moscow Tuesday, during the 6th International Forum of Adam Smith Institute dedicated to Russia’s food industry.
”There are grounds to suppose that the technical and organizational procedures would be competed in the first quarter of 2008, and legal implementation would take another month. So, Russia could be the WTO member from July 1, 2008,” Kushnirenko explained.
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