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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9443
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/russia/trade

In St Petersburg, Mandelson, Gref, Lamy and Ms Schwab discuss measures to help WTO accession - President Putin strongly criticises WTO

Brussels, 11/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - Responding, at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, to foreign business leaders who had asked him to take measures to hasten Russia's accession to the WTO and to put in place a clearer legal framework, Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that the accession process would only advance “on terms acceptable to (Moscow)” and he was highly critical of the WTO, which he accused of being “archaic, undemocratic and rigid”. Noting, with a certain degree of...

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