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which brightened if you knew about someone from feinstein crashing the. news for a new star totty dot com. hello again and welcome to spotlight then see the show on our t.v. i'm al green out and today my guest in the studio is mark seem to vent pipe. russia has been knocking on the door of the world trade organization for the last seventeen years finally president medvedev said russia's w. tell membership was a matter of months now officials say sure they're down to the final details but it

seems we've already heard that a couple of years ago so we're all we all root to becoming part of the world trade community or still knocking on heaven's door let's ask mr made that who is russia w t i would negotiate what he should know. joining the w true means demolishing trade borders and deactivating protective economic mechanisms generally open trade is expected to have a positive impact it's a new variety of goods reaches consumers who return and exercise more choice as these goods compete but many russian fia w. entry will seriously undermine the country subsidized industrial base and ultimately cost russian jobs however the w t o is seen by the russian leadership as a tool to improve the quality of domestic production because they're going to get it all. so has brought to bomb a support very important. to many things dawns international

trade may soon be. homeless to be vet care for thank you very much for coming to a show welcome to the spotlight well first of all on the first of october russia's finance minister announced that i quote russia and the us settled all outstanding bilateral issues relating to russia's assertion to the double e.t.l. and cold but edward told me last week in the studio that that wasn't exactly the case so what's your impression where are we actually my impression is that we have settled. with us which were of concern. to our partners or years of negotiations however probably mr on is of the right if you think submission we have to discuss together with united states and. trading

partners into the world within the. framework so we have to do it. but on bilateral disc with us we think it was so well russia has already signed by electro agreement with the united states and back in two thousand and six yet if i'm not mistaken so what has changed since when you have to sign this well come up with another agree what we did with us in two thousand and six in. agreed terms of market access to russian. market of goods and services but we have not discussed that so called systemic commitments to be sure russia has to undertake because of its obsession its commitment. in last. act of how russia implement troops and muster was a negotiated engineer was in

a multilateral framework about the respect of some of the. united states traditionally. big interests. more interested in finding solutions to the base of their requests that's why. we were. in certain positions for three years four years with united states and we have completed by the first of two since you russia's negotiator on the deadly issues who do you think you are who you feel to be are you in economist a politician or negotiator a diplomat who are you today. is a good question i think somewhere in between. there are very few people dozens of people in the world doing trade richard doing trade negotiations and it's not

a profession. i think it was. it's a condition for most of my colleagues who it's a hobby not to me because i have been paid. full time off and until we complete our accession to double term but you're right. this is rope is a rather interesting. and you know you have to know a little bit different different diplomacy history economics and so well. why am i asking here this question i'm asking about this is that i want to know i want to understand the latest agreement has become possible only after personal involvement of both presidents obama. and meditative doesn't mean that the session to the deadly terror of a new country is

a purely political issue not an economic political issue just. an interesting question and must cases it is it should be economic here and in most cases it is economic in some cases it is not and is not because you are always. have to solve issues as a border between trade and politics and russia is a big country huge interest into our obsession countries would like to solve many problems some of them and a common problem about some of them and somalia is that's why political support sometimes is need it in these kind of negotiations spotlights even the did neither has the details on how russia has been trying to speed up that secession to the w.t. help. russia isn't your event of a two w.t.

all access pass where russians have heard for several years in a row it usually takes no more than five to seven years to clinch a membership agreement russia's been as lingers for seventeen days this diamond miter medvedev is really putting pressure on steam to speed up the process the media has described the recent concessions made by russia the storm in the double. a major second fires which was announced in geneva last month concerns and new cultural subsidies will not be increased until two thousand and twelve and for the wrong by the year two thousand and seventeen state support for the agricultural sector will be hard new compromises are expected to follow soon man press in the issues on the agenda school bright legislation has been considerably improved but in practice eighty percent of attempts. to prove copyright violations fail then the us the corporations and state purchases which raise questions with other members of

the w t o who doubt foreign business will be allowed to function on equal terms with their russian counterparts another complication is that now where she's part of the customs union with bella rousseau kazakhstan and although the three countries have given up on the idea of entering the organization as a single entity russia's new status as a member of the union must be reflected in a little documents it's made according to the most optimistic forecast the procedure of russia's accession will start in four months after that the country will still have to wait another six to twelve months for actual membership meanwhile skeptics argue that accession is not more than a new ferocious to make and this concessions to w two your countries. in one of the interviews you said to mr an event that russia could become a member of the w t o by the end of next year two thousand and eleven if the

current pace of negotiation will continue stays safe as it is do you think that if you said if something good happened to slow down the process once again you're afraid of that. but everything may happen for a first forecast. before i return. to sort of a dog person because probably. after i return the problem is that we have to deal with it you can trees show me negotiate this deal and we have to do huge technical. and. time needed for talk is depends not only on us depends also on resources our partners. ken sands through you need to do the job

so it's not in our hands we are dependant not us. technically we can do we can complete a person soon but what will happen in real life i don't know if we asked people in the streets they would say that the price we paid to the united states for w.t.f. a session was the american frozen chicken and russian market is that the price we paid or something more serious. that would talk session is a big commercial do. you have to perform for succession and you have to compare this payment you have made it is in loan use your expectations you get from. membership interim solution so we believe that we are in a very balanced situation and we have not overpaid and we believe that in the long

term we will get more benefits in order to compensate concessions rich i don't think. we will korea it in any substantial problems for domestic economy or even even even the limitations on the states support today to russian agriculture which which is which was widely discussed in the bush. it was discussed but. a figure of speech we protect or no negotiations. and many experts confirm those. figures of support will be more than enough to continue our policy in respect of modernization of a good coach. so. if you compare volume of subsidies. in one to nineteen and no ninety nine to. ninety five

billion so if you're dollars and known before and you compare. that old russian agriculture competition office compared with the current very clearly it's not the money richard decisive for developments. says mark sim a death of a russian w t o negotiating spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay way on down we'll continue in less than a minute. misplace make sign. but in others it sparkles and unexplainable introduced.

to a place where supernatural things are happening. probably with. the. welcome back to spotlight on al green love and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is monks immediate russian doubly

negotiator we're talking about the possibility of russians a session condemning the show which is expected by the end of next year by the negotiators by the kremlin and mr medvedev you mentioned that you're a bit of everything better the diplomat of a politician. communist you're a negotiator and oh a political question since since you you already said before that you you agree that there's a lot of politics in this in this process georgia's position how tough is georgia and its been in its. position we know it has made a couple of efforts to block russians assertion to w. is it being successful. continue accession and. is in the room. where we negotiate. struve.

from plants. will not support session but what this means in terms we do know of three rules of the bhutto is loving to what country to walk accession of it has never happened in history and we hope that it will not happen no. optimistic in this respect but it's for double to members to decide. russia should accede not that do you think that other countries deadly two countries can influence belief c. so the georgia would stop blocking russia's and say will they want to do that what's your expectation. my expectations. of all the trade body with more than one hundred fifty countries. members real body real

organized themselves in a way which we'll eliminate any possibility of blocking off activity of this organization. or even a few members so we were told from the beginning of the accession to the good fish is driven by members members of decisive force who saw as a result of what we hear from most of the capitals. but most of the club poles very clearly would like to see russia as a member as soon as possible ok now we're told it talks about negotiations with the united states which with china definitely over and over successfully now what about now what about talks with the european union what is the what is the deadline now with these in and these negotiations is there a deadline. there is a deadline. to go there live. and we.

learn in the next. several weeks i will not said to exist several weeks we have very few things on our most sensitive thing for us and for the populace is. due to use experts of. color. quest talking about concessions once again says this is this is not a concession then that you're ready to make or are not ready to our life is a. concession to some extra death. we're making a. living every day every day of our life and the convention right ok ok that's a good answer but that ok let's start let's compare let's compare negotiations with washington and with brussels why should america and the european you know what what was easier wed where did we would you personally lose more nerves. what cost you more. you see

is a european union is. much more difficult as compared to visitors for one reason you have to resist goldman through the european commission and commission has to really create. with twenty seven members to seizure is this procedure going see is something which we have to adjust ourselves as well because we have. similar procedure in our customs unions differences we are currently syrians are trying to so who are russian bureaucracy can only be compared to brute brussels bureaucracy also there this may also make it easier to communicate to the two other take out where there is that true. i still hold that we are more effective for this . but a measure difference because the threat of certain countries may have different positions in respect of same issues and it takes much more time to find a compromise nevertheless we have much more. currently we have.

open question so it's compulsory. you go we have music problem off those extra beauties if you so. differently. you know that's the discussion and that what we gain what we lose if we are off to leisure time the devil was. pretty pretty wide pen and pretty open not only in the russian press but in the society so now let's see do russians really find anything positive about their country joining family tale spotlights. on their has tried to find out in the streets of moscow right there today outside to find out what the people in this country think about russia joining the world trade organization. well yes and no there are too many conditions which would hurt our

economy if we join the the taxation system and free capital flight would be affected but increased foreign investments the russian judicial system industrial and agricultural might be more likely to meet international standards. yes it could be a good thing but only one condition that nobody dictates prices for energy resources to us nobody in the world has the same resources as we do so somebody would certainly choice to trick us for free but it would be true it's a very controversial process because we stand to lose a lot russia's joining the can affect our agricultural sector because of the extent to which it is subsidized however for the most part i think we will benefit from joining the. no joining the w t o would lead to the removal of customs barriers in turn foreign competition for south noncompetitive industries of which we have many in russia the agricultural sector would suffer the most. i think it would be

a good idea because russia would be more competitive on the international arena. out i'm like you just got a question if i guess. if russia would join the w t o we'd heard russian industry. you're your answer please will it made her to russia's industry. may create programs to. subsectors of some of the three like we like what. first of all not competitive. and. nobody could trust us to go. so medium level of competition in the us like the car leakers. i don't think america will suffer. because of comic us if you treat mentors which are functioning in russia as a russian companies saying they will from taxation that you're doing things are ok

there be a big a big a large a car is a way away which has been dying for the last twenty years. but. also you have to modernize its production and. closer discussing different kinds of congress as well from if you're interesting you said you said that the membership can can hurt the industries which are not competitive i don't know anything less competitive than blood or cars on the european market so what's less competitive for please please like me. during all those years of excess and we have received on the. one letter from my industry reach and visit the state or. because of double taxation we will do it but we will go anyway and this was a from the industry we should produce brushless because a judge rushes. from one of our companies in siberia

because in petitioning from chinese of the brushes sure the russians are not the i like russia's about lol i love shoes brushes the shoe brush so they're not comparable. can't read and produce the noising that's interesting russian oysters are not competitive because but. ok now. we know that expert oriented raw material producers would be the first to gain from brushes session to the w.t. oh at least this is what they and what the papers write and the economic pages but . the russia joining there which you won't contradict to the policy of modernization that's being put forward by the press. exactly to implement this type of thought modernization accession.

is. exceptional really bring to russia benefits which we were unable to minute enterprise's to be integrated into the world trading system to cooperation with foreign enterprise's and to really modernize. and as a production production facilities because reza problem is when you know if you supply only gas and oil and there are no big barriers to trade so you probably don't need but if you would like to supply the products riis. it's like cars machines so aircraft there are huge various traits and if

you're not subject to certain rules and you're a newcomer so you may have a substantial program say in accidents at not it's also really culture markets thank you thank you very much for being with us i hope i hope you succeed just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was much similar to the russian w t hope we get a shot and that's it for now from all of us here if you're in town of your say spotlight or have someone in monte you think i should interview next time to drop me a line at al gore in the past r.t. t.v. dot our year and let's keep the show interactive we will be back with more and comments on what's going on in and outside pressure until then stay on r.t. and take it take.