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Tue, 04/05/2011 - 08:00
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Russia hopes to joint WTO in summer or autumn 2011 -- official
NEW YORK, April 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russia hopes to join the World Trade
Organization in the summer or autumn of 2011, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei
Ivanov said here Monday as he addressed a meeting of the Council on
Foreign Policy.
He indicated that last year "marked a breakthrough in the talks on
Russia's accession to the WTO and we expect we'll be admitted there as
early as this summer or autumn."
"This term is quite realistic as long as we can see all the
circumstances," Ivanov said.
"Although Russia seeks joining this international organization, we
realize perfectly well all the pros and cons /of this membership/ for our
economy," Ivanov said. "Its strongest sectors will certainly win but the
less competitive ones - machine-building, car manufacturing and some
others - will suffer."
"And yet we're undertaking all this because we realize that as soon as
these sectors begin suffering from the country's WTO membership, they'll
immediately get more motivations for revamping and modernizing themselves
than they have now," Ivanov said.
As he mentioned the position taken by Georgian government on Russia's
accession to the WTO, he said it does not have any immediate relationship
either to the WTO, trade, security or other issues.
"The problem has an exclusively political underpinning and we'd like
to resolve it on our own," Ivanov said.
He underlined the imminent benefits that the earliest possible
abolition of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which termed the progress
of trade with the then USSR by the freedom of Jewish emigration to the
U.S., would serve the interests of both Moscow and Washington.
"The JVA is a rudiment of the Cold War," Ivanov said. "This
restriction was introduced back at a time when I was a university
student," Ivanov said. "At this moment, however, Russia has visa-free
travel regulations for the Russian citizens going to Israel and now we're
making efforts towards abolishing visas for trips to the U.S., and yet the
JVA is still in effect."
"More than that, in 2002 the U.S. recognized Russia as a country
having a market economy," he said. "This means that the causes have long
become a thing of the past and the restrictions linger on."
"I hope however that this rudiment of the Cold War will vanish soon
and the U.S. Congress will facilitate its removal," Ivanov said.
Organization in the summer or autumn of 2011, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei
Ivanov said here Monday as he addressed a meeting of the Council on
Foreign Policy.
He indicated that last year "marked a breakthrough in the talks on
Russia's accession to the WTO and we expect we'll be admitted there as
early as this summer or autumn."
"This term is quite realistic as long as we can see all the
circumstances," Ivanov said.
"Although Russia seeks joining this international organization, we
realize perfectly well all the pros and cons /of this membership/ for our
economy," Ivanov said. "Its strongest sectors will certainly win but the
less competitive ones - machine-building, car manufacturing and some
others - will suffer."
"And yet we're undertaking all this because we realize that as soon as
these sectors begin suffering from the country's WTO membership, they'll
immediately get more motivations for revamping and modernizing themselves
than they have now," Ivanov said.
As he mentioned the position taken by Georgian government on Russia's
accession to the WTO, he said it does not have any immediate relationship
either to the WTO, trade, security or other issues.
"The problem has an exclusively political underpinning and we'd like
to resolve it on our own," Ivanov said.
He underlined the imminent benefits that the earliest possible
abolition of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which termed the progress
of trade with the then USSR by the freedom of Jewish emigration to the
U.S., would serve the interests of both Moscow and Washington.
"The JVA is a rudiment of the Cold War," Ivanov said. "This
restriction was introduced back at a time when I was a university
student," Ivanov said. "At this moment, however, Russia has visa-free
travel regulations for the Russian citizens going to Israel and now we're
making efforts towards abolishing visas for trips to the U.S., and yet the
JVA is still in effect."
"More than that, in 2002 the U.S. recognized Russia as a country
having a market economy," he said. "This means that the causes have long
become a thing of the past and the restrictions linger on."
"I hope however that this rudiment of the Cold War will vanish soon
and the U.S. Congress will facilitate its removal," Ivanov said.
