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Reuters: Russia to resume WTO negotiations in June – officialhttp://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-48798120100525 Wed May 26, 2010 5:22am IST By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will next month resume negotiations to join the World Trade Organisation, suspended last year after it decided to form a Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russia's chief negotiator told Reuters. "On June 17 we will resume the WTO accession talks which had been suspended," Maxim Medvedkov said after informal consultations with members of the working group on Russia's accession in Geneva on Monday and Tuesday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took investors by surprise last year when he said that Russia, tired of being kept in the WTO's waiting room for 16 years, had opted for a union with its former Soviet neighbours instead. However, the launch of the Customs Union, initially planned for July 1, was postponed last week after Russia and Belarus failed to find common ground over the issue of duty-free oil exports to Belarus. Putin, who personally led the union negotiations with his Kazakh and Belarussian counterparts, said it would take some time to iron out differences. Medvedkov said Russia had pledged to provide detailed information on the Customs Union to all WTO members. He said the working group members had agreed to amend the report on Russia to reflect its membership of the union. Medvedkov said Russia would seek WTO membership unilaterally. Last month it dropped its earlier proposal to join as a union with Belarus and Kazakhstan. "Our position has not changed, we are continuing negotiations as sovereign states but agree our positions on all issues concerning the Customs Union," he said. Russia is looking to diversify its exports away from commodities and energy and shift trade from slow-growing developed markets to fast-growing emerging and frontier markets. WTO membership would help Russia achieve both goals, increase the country's attractiveness for foreign investors and facilitate new bilateral trade deals. The United States and the European Union list the status of Russia's state-owned enterprises, intellectual property rights and farming subsidies as among stumbling blocks to membership. Even before the Customs Union's talks ran into troubles, Russia had signalled renewed interest in the WTO. A political decision on Russian membership could be taken at a special summit between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama. The WTO bid is also likely to dominate a Russia-EU summit next week. (Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; editing by Andrew Roche) RIA: Georgia ready to develop ties with "modernized" Russiahttp://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100526/159158094.html 02:1226/05/2010 Georgia is ready to develop relations with "modernized" Russia, the country's president Mikheil Saakashvili said during an interview with the country's media. "We will wait for the period when modernized Georgia becomes a desired partner for modernized Russia," he said in an interview, which was broadcast live by the Rustavi channel on Tuesday evening. The two states fought a five-day war in August 2008 that began when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control. After Russia had recognized independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian republic, Abkhazia, Tbilisi declared the two republics as its "occupied territories" and severed diplomatic ties with Russia. He blamed Moscow for severed ties between the two states. "It was not our initiative to severe diplomatic ties with Russia. They were halted after Russia stopped recognizing [the territorial integrity of] the Georgian state," he said. Saakashvili said that Georgia's path of development was to strengthen democracy and institutions of liberty. "We must follow our course. And, sooner or later, Russia will also step into the path of modernization. It will happen much earlier that many people expect," he said. The Georgian leader said Russia nowadays has "big problems, much bigger than the Soviet Union had in the 80s." TBILISI, May 26 (RIA Novosti) May 26, 2010 12:12 Trend.az: Azerbaijani Defense Minister pays working visit to Russia http://en.trend.az/news/politics/enforcement/1694341.html 26.05.2010 10:30 Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel General Safar Abiyev on the Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov's invitation has paid a working visit to Moscow, the Defense Ministry said. During the meeting of the ministers regional security issues, course and prospects of cooperation in military field are expected to be discussed.
"The General Staff has ordered training to be organized for our servicemen with foreign armed forces and within the framework of the Russia-NATO format," Shamanov told the press in Moscow on Wednesday. Some of our servicemen are preparing to travel to the United States and Germany, he said. sd mj
Trend.az: RF created five rapid reaction airborne battalions, one of the units currently in Kyrgyzstan http://ru.trend.az/regions/world/russia/1694473.html GOOGLE TRANSLATION 05/26/2010 12:25 Airborne troops were created five battalions of priority application, staffed by military personnel who have been "hot spots". One of the units of these battalions are now performs the task in Kyrgyzstan, told reporters on Tuesday Airborne Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov, writes RIA Novosti. "In the transition to a one-year compulsory military service, I have decided, but the leadership of General Staff approved it, the creation of five battalions of airborne priority application", - said the Shaman. According to him, these units are 70% manned by contract, most of them have experience of participation in hostilities. "One of the units of these battalions are currently performing the task in the territory of Kyrgyzstan", - said the Shamanov. In Kyrgyzstan, April 6 start of mass unrest that swept the next day almost the entire country. The victims of the collision were 85 people, more than 1500 were wounded. By the power in the country in the wake of mass protests, opposition has come, and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country. In connection with the riots in Kyrgyzstan, the Russian president ordered the Defense Ministry to strengthen the security of Russian citizens and facilities, to the Russian base at Kant in Kyrgyzstan were sent to two companies of military airborne troops - about 150 people. RIA: Defence announced the creation of five battalions of five battalions of rapid reaction paratroopers in Russia Directory: gifiles -> attach attach -> British Forces – Akrioti, Greece Griffin Fighter Squadron (84 Squadron raf) MoD announced possible Typhoon and Tornado arrivals to the base France attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments attach -> Unclassified//for official use only attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution Download 248.08 Kb. Share with your friends:
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