12.06.09

Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev believes that the establishment of the Eurasec (Eurasian Economic Community) Customs Union, the treaty on which was signed in Moscow on Tuesday (9 June), does not mean that Russia is giving up on accession to the WTO (World Trade Organization), presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova has said.

According to her, the president said that Russia was in no way giving up on WTO accession, "even though the process has been drawn out, and in recent years looked more like feeding (Russia) with promises".

As regards the Customs Union, the treaty is aimed at a specific result. "All the sides fully recognize that it is about genuine mutually beneficial cooperation," Timakova quoted Medvedev as saying.

In the opinion of the Russian president, Timakova noted, continuous work with our partners, and above all with the initiator of the creation of Eurasec, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, has made the signing of this agreement possible.

She also stressed that the president had expressed his satisfaction both with the talks with (Russia's) partners in Eurasec, and with the work of the Russian government in this area.

(Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced that the member states of the new Customs Union - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - will suspend WTO accession talks as individual countries and start talks on the accession of the union of as a single customs zone, Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS reported earlier.)

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Source: Interfax