RUSSIA RESTARTS TALKS ON WTO ENTRY
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSULTATIONS have restarted in Geneva over the long delayed entry of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which would create more predictability in energy relations with Moscow. Russia wants to join with gas-rich Kazakhstan and pipeline transit country Belarus: it aims to forge a customs union with both neighbours on November 27.
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CONSULTATIONS have restarted in Geneva over the long delayed entry of Russia to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which would create more predictability in energy relations with Moscow. Russia wants to join with gas-rich Kazakhstan and pipeline transit country Belarus: it aims to forge a customs union with both neighbours on November 27.
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