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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8278

19 August 2002
(eu) wto/russia

19/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - Russia's membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) could be postponed until 2007, observed that country's Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Maxim Medvedkov, in an interview with the daily Gazeta. "We have no more room for manoeuvre for the moment and no major breakthrough is possible," he added, while asserting that "membership in 2007 is perfectly realistic although most experts think that is too late for Russia". Last June, President Putin deemed...