Georgia wants more transparency on Russian borders to approve WTO agreement (Bloomberg, USA)

According to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Tornike Gordadze, until the Russian borders become more transparent, Georgia may not provide support to Russian attempts to join the World Trade Organization, which Russia has been seeking for 18 years.

“We ask for a very simple thing. Membership in the WTO requires transparency of borders, and that’s what we want to see, ”Gordadze stressed in an interview on Wednesday in Polish Krynica. “But Russia began to violate this principle from the very beginning.” Georgia wants to see "at least the presence of international observers at the borders."

This month, Russia and Georgia should sit down at the negotiating table in Switzerland to discuss Russia's accession to the WTO. Russia has been trying to join this trade organization since 1993, breaking China's records, which had to wait 15 for years. While the United States and the European Union favor Russia’s accession, Russia’s southern neighbor, Georgia, is hindering it, which aggravates relations between the two countries.

“We want Russia to join the WTO. This would force her to keep within the framework of the rules that she still continues to ignore, such as the unlawful embargo that is used against the import of Georgian goods, ”Gordadze said.

Russia suspended the import of Georgian goods in 2006 year and later in the same year extended and expanded the ban - the routes of communication with Georgia by air, railway and sea were cut off, the postal message was suspended, and money transfer services were blocked - all this after in Georgia, four Russian servicemen were arrested on charges of espionage. These four were released and expelled from the country 2 in October 2006, after which Russia applied the sanctions listed.

Deliveries of the Georgian Borjomi mineral water to Russia, which disappeared in Russia for these five years, could immediately resume if the Russian and Georgian authorities finally agreed, commenting on the phone from Tbilisi, Nice Cholokashvili, a spokesman for the company.

Largest market

The Russian economy is the largest economy and the only one among the G-20 countries that is not part of the World Trade Organization, whose 153 member accounts for 97% of world trade turnover. According to the World Bank, accession to the WTO could spur the growth of the Russian one-and-half-trillion economy by more than three percent in the medium term. For a new member to enter, all current WTO members must agree on the conditions for entry.

“We are not trying to give a political shade to this issue and we are definitely not trying to say that we will allow Russia to join the WTO only in exchange for the termination of the occupation of our territories - nothing of the kind,” emphasizes Gordadze. “It's just a completely different question.”

Russia completely defeated the Georgian forces in the five-day war in 2008 on the territory of South Ossetia, and later it recognized the independence of this separatist region from the Caucasian state. Russia also recognized the independence of Abkhazia - another separatist region. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refuses to negotiate with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who is accused of initiating this conflict.

According to Gordadze, Georgia will continue its attempts at negotiations with Russia and expects that the situation will develop.

“At least, negotiations are continuing, and they cannot be called completely unproductive,” he said. - It is necessary to continue them.

Comments

[Cvetluy]

Joining the WTO is beneficial only to gas oil and metallurgical oligarchs, while the state is obliged to remove all already small subsidies to agriculture, all poultry farming will die and the market will be overwhelmed with bush legs (which amers themselves do not eat, because on hormones) our other manufacturers basically, foreigners will not stand the competition, they are dumped at their prices (they have reserves, and ours have everything in circulation) AND ASKED WHY DOES THIS WTO WE NEED? !!!

[kagorta]

Gas and oil, and so anyway. But the metalworkers and relief come. I also think that it makes no sense for us to join the WTO, we have a small market and what we are interested in can be dragged to us (for example, the motor transport giants and slowly open their production), but if the WTO would come hell, but simply deliver cars and all.

[cVM]

we must not concede to the Georgians, this is not accepted at all, PPC in which we are in a situation that even small Georgia is blackmailing us

[dashkkyar]

Chechnya is even smaller, but look Che creates))

[zczczc]

And he achieves money rain, which is significant!
A contagious example for neighbors ...

[dashkkyar]

would soon get infected

[zczczc]

If another Caucasian territory wants rain of money by increasing terrorist attacks, it is likely to get a new war. Only in this war there will be no opportunity to buy the right to withdraw, etc. All liberal politics in the Caucasus is only up to the elections, then local residents will have to choose - an automatic machine in the forest and subsequent death, or plow in the field and life as it earned by this plow. Fed. the center will help, but not flood money.

No one else will pay for the transition from machine to sokha. The plow should feed, but not the machine - this is normal.

[dashkkyar]

Quote: zczczc

If another one Caucasian territory wants rain of money by increasing terrorist attacks, it is likely to get a new war.

so everyone * Caucasian * already sits on such rain, and people already make an automatic machine / plow every day, good morning))

[dashkkyar]

come to Dagestan for a year or two and try to do something with your plow in the field ... masked ghouls, break ribs, break plow, take away everything that you dig in the field, declare a terrorist ... then sum up at the end of the year - terrorism is growing in Dagestan, they are asking the Kremlin for money to fight them ... and there everything depends on you - if you consider yourself a person, not a sheep, you have the dignity - you take a machine gun to the forest, if not, you leave for Russia, and there, with the same offended you are a bunch, you begin to mafia

[zczczc]

Georgia should be glad that after the last war it still has its own borders. Otherwise, they would now be "the Georgian region of the Russian Federation."

[dashkkyar]

and then the Russian Federation would become an area of ​​free workers in the USA

[zczczc]

Well, this is "we'll see a little more" ...

[dashkkyar]

Mother Russia * already, now, they don’t put anything in the world, they only hold for a kind of * stall * - money there, gas from there.
We will wait a bit - we will see a little

[raf]

Well, and that there was anyone doubts that Russia will NEVER join (DO NOT PUT) into the WTO?

[Roman Skomorokhov]

There are still doubts, it is painfully actively pushing us there ...

I think we should be grateful to the Georgians for their stubbornness in this matter. WTO is like a financial pyramid - who is first, he is in slippers, the rest .... t. As an example - the state of light industry in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania. Here you have the WTO (Entered - Silently Stolen).

I will touch Georgia again.
"The supplies to Russia of the Georgian mineral water Borjomi, which disappeared in Russia for these five years, could immediately resume if the Russian and Georgian authorities finally reached an agreement," Nice Cholokashvili, a spokesman for the company, commented by telephone from Tbilisi.

Of course, "Borjomi" is the product, without which there is simply nothing. As well as wine. Essentials, whatever one may say. It's just that they somehow forget that a holy place is never empty. And instead of Borjom it is quite possible to use Essentuki.
And in the event of a final break in relations, Georgia can get back all its traders from our markets. Experience, whatever one may say, is. Their place will be gladly taken by the neighbors from Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Would you think if something ... It’s not the century that a friend of the barrack would support Misha’s friend

Although for me, let him continue to stupid. we benefit straight.

[ytqnhfk]

It seems that it is even beneficial for us that they do not "let in" Or why I do not understand? People who are informed, explain what is the difference before and after entry, but somehow I don’t understand ??? !!

[kesa1111]

For sabotage of entry to send teddy bear nutritional ties.