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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9914

5 June 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Catherine Ashton favours Russian WTO membership by end 2009

Brussels, 04/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - Meeting on the sidelines of the economic forum in Saint Petersburg on 4 June, European Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton and Russian Econmic Development Minister Elvira Nabioullina agreed that Russia's accession to the WTO, for which the process has been ongoing since 1993 albeit somewhat disturbed by the Russian-Georgian conflict in August 2008, should take place by the end of 2009. “I welcome the commitment Minister Nabiullina has shown today. We...

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