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Mar 14, 2011 01:12 Moscow Time
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is off to Paris to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the G-8 on March 14-15. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich, "the meeting will consider the political agenda of the forum in preparation for the G-8 Summit in Deauville, France. The latter meeting is scheduled for May 26-27. The sides will exchange views on the situation in North Africa, the Middle East, on the antiterrorist front, and many other topics.
Mar 15: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to visit Minsk
Mar 15: Council of ministries of union state of Russia and Belarus to hold meeting
Mar 15: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to discuss providing loan for construction of nuclear power plant with Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich
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Biden urges repeal of Jackson-Vanik amendment
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Mar 14, 2011 10:58 Moscow Time
The New York Times quoted Monday US Vice President Joe Biden as urging the Obama Administration to do more to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment and support Russia’s WTO bid.
Biden, who paid a two-day visit to Russia late last week, also stressed the importance of deepening trade and economic collaboration between Moscow and Washington, which he said is still tarnished by the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
WTO Talks With Georgia Held Up by Customs
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/wto-talks-with-georgia-held-up-by-customs/432436.html
14 March 2011
Bloomberg
Georgia may resume talks next month on lifting its opposition to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
The two sides made no "significant" progress during negotiations in Switzerland earlier this week, Nikoloz Mchedlishvili, a spokesman for Prime Minister Nika Gilauri, said by telephone in the capital Tbilisi on Friday.
Mchedlishvili said Georgia objects to customs checkpoints in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Getting Russia into the World Trade Organization would help deal with issues about the openness of that nation's economy, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Thursday during a luncheon sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
"It is in our interest to bring the world's largest economy," which isn't subject to WTO rules, into the global trade group, Kirk said.
Senator Benjamin Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said he was skeptical of voting to clear Russia for the WTO.
"I'm just not going to knee-jerk approve these agreements unless I know that we have effective remedies," Cardin told Kirk. "You only have certain leverage points. Once they are in the WTO, our chances of getting enforceable provisions in an understanding with the United States evaporates."
NEW YORK — Real estate mogul Donald Trump appeared at a New York news conference Thursday with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to announce a luxury development project there, The Associated Press reported.
Trump will make an initial investment in Georgia of $250 million, according to the Georgian government web site. "Since the project is of high scales, the sum of it will increase," the web site quoted Trump as saying.
Georgia received $553 million of foreign direct investment last year, the National Statistics Office said on its web site Friday, Bloomberg reported.
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01:36 14/03/2011
The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha, will visit Tajikistan on March 14-18, the Central Asian country's Foreign Ministry said.
"During meetings in Dushanbe, Bordyuzha will discuss regional security, efforts to counter extremism, terrorism and transnational crime, stabilize the regional situation, and the situation in Afghanistan," Bordyuzha said.
The secretary general will also attend a meeting of the working group on Afghanistan.
The CSTO is a regional security organization. Its seven member states are Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
DUSHANBE, March 14 (RIA Novosti)
Farid Niyazov: Kyrgyzstan hopes to settle POL delivery issue
14/03-2011 10:44, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency
Kyrgyzstan hopes to settle POL delivery issue during forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev to Moscow, advisor of Head of Government Farid Niyazov told reporters, commenting on the situation with the POL duty abolishment by Russia.
“All the issues, discussed in the context of continued duty-free fuel supply from Russia to Kyrgyzstan, had been solved ever since. Currently, there is a delay of reached agreements entry into force. Kyrgyzstan hopes to settle the issue in the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev to Moscow, on March 18, 2011,” he explained.
Let’s note, earlier, in mass media appeared information that Russia again introduced POL export duties for Kyrgyzstan.
According to parliamentary deputy Azamat Arapbaev, delivery of duty-free fuel, which had to start on February 15, was not performed.
Previously, officials did not comment these facts. But today they assumed that there were POL delivery problems.
URL: http://eng.24.kg/cis/2011/03/14/16814.html
Uchkunbek Tashbaev: No official information on Russia’s export duties received yet
14/03-2011 07:39, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Darya PODOLSKAYA
“Kyrgyzstan has no official notification on introduction of export duties for fuel supplies from Russia,” Minister of Economic Regulation Uchkunbek Tashbaev told 24.kg news agency.
On the eve Russia based news agency REGNUM distributed information that RF reintroduced previously lifted export duties on fuel supplies in Kyrgyzstan. “In the near future Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev will visit Moscow. I believe the negotiations will resolve this issue. Anyway, I must repeat, our department has no official confirmation of this information,” he concluded.
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