Russia to join WTO within a year: US
16:10, 20 October 2010
MOSCOW. October 20. KAZINFORM US President Barack Obama's senior economic adviser says Russia will join the World Trade Organization within the next 12 months; Kazinform refers to China Daily.
Lawrence Summers, the director of Obama's National Economic Council, said at a briefing Wednesday the objections of US ally Georgia, which fought a war with Russia in 2008, will not impact US support for Russia's entry into the organization.
Summers said that Russia's quotas on US meat imports is one of the outstanding issues that will need to be addressed; Kazinform cites China Daily.
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