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Russia Begins OECD Negotiations
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has begun negotiations with Russia on its accession to that organization. The admission process is comparable to that of the WTO in complexity and it will take at least two years. Russian legislation, law enforcement and politics have to be shown to conform to OECD standards, and not only for economics.
Russia filed its admission application 11 years ago and received its invitation to begin negotiations on May 16 of this year. The actual process began last Friday, after the ambassadors of Russia, Estonia, China, Israel and Slovenia were given so-called “road maps” that describe the basic values of memberships and evaluations of state regulation and law enforcement in comparison with the standards and instruments of the OECD and descriptions of the steps hat have to be taken to complete negotiations.
The half-year pause between the invitation to negotiations and their start was apparently due to Poland, a member of the OECD, which blocked Russia's application while Jaroslaw Kaczynski was in office.
OECD membership standards are broader than those of the WTO. Its basic values include adherence to pluralistic democracy based on the supremacy of the law and respect of human rights as well as strict observance of the principle of an open and transparent market economy and stable development. Its requirements for openness of economy are stricter than those of the WTO. It currently has 30 member states.
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All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 06, 2007
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