Brussels, 05/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - With the members of the World Trade Organisation getting ready to discuss Russia's entry to the WTO on Thursday, the NGO Friends of the Earth wrote to the European Commissioner for Trade, Pascal Lamy, asking him to call for accession negotiations to be put on ice until Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
"In the absence of a commitment by the Bush administration and despite its ratification by 117 countries, entry into force of the...