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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9918

11 June 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Russians turn cool about WTO accession

Brussels, 10/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - Vladimir Putin added some cold water to the difficult process for Russian accession to the WTO with his announcement on Tuesday 9 June that Moscow intended to join the multilateral organisation governing world trade as a customs union with Belorussia and Kazakhstan and not individually. According to the Russian prime minister, the three countries will inform the WTO of their intention. Moscow, Minsk and Astana will also tell the WTO about the halt in...

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