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kyrgyzstan investigations underway into a fresh wave of violence just days ahead of the parliamentary vote on wednesday a mob stormed the head waters of a leading political party after protests staged by relatives of those killed in april riots. after almost two decades of talks russia's membership of the world trade organization could be just a matter of months away algor knopf asks moscow's chief negotiator to the w t o how likely it is that the country will finally become part of the influential group spotlight as next just a few moments. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and

what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join our technology update on our g. hello again and welcome to spotlight then see a show on our t.v. i'm calgary now and today my guest in the studio is mark seem to vet. russia has been knocking on the door of the world trade organization for the last seventeen years finally president medvedev said russia's doubly 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 route to becoming part of the world trade community or still knocking on heaven's door let's ask mr mid that who is russia w

t i would negotiate or he should know. joining the w through means demolishing trade borders and deactivating protective economic mechanisms generally open trade is expected to have a positive impact on new variety of goods reaches consumers turn and exercise more choice as these goods compete but many russia and she will seriously undermine the country subsidized industrial base and ultimately cost russian jobs however the w t o is. seen by the russian leadership of the two to improve the quality of domestic production presently where it also has brought the bomb and support their important ways the wu after many false dawns international trade may soon be. homeless to prevent her from thank you very much for coming to

a show welcome to 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 r and co that 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 issue with us which were of concern. to our partners or years of negotiations. probably with mr own eyes of the right if you think seriously we have to discuss together with united states and. trading partners into the world within the. framework so we have to do it. about bilateral disc with us we think it was soft well russia has

already signed by electro agreement with the united states and back in two thousand and six 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 sixteen. agreed on terms of market access to the russian. market of goods and services but we have not discussed the so-called systemic committed. sure russia has to undertake because of its accession its commitments. in respect 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 on the basis of their requests that's why. we were. in certain positions for three years four years was united states and we have completed by the first of two since you russia's negotiated the devil issues who do you think you are who you feel to be are you in economist a politician or negotiator a diplomat why 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

until the complete accession to double term but you're right it. 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. interesting question in most 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 what kind of problems about some of the border is that's why political support sometimes is need it in these kind of negotiations spotlights even the dim either has the details on how russia has been trying to speed up its a session to the w.t. how. russia is nearer than average to w t o accession aswell russians have heard for several years in a row it usually takes no more than five to seven years to cringe a membership agreement russia's been as lingers for seventeen days this stunned me

through madrid and 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. and major second fines 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 our new compromises are expected to follow soon man press in the shoes on the gender school. right legislation has been considerably improved but in practice eighty percent of attempts to prove copyright violations fail than the us the corporations and state purchases which raise questions with other members of the. 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 exception is not more than new ferocious to make and this concessions to w.t. all countries. in one of the interviews you said mr navette curve 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 he said if something good happened to slow down the process once again you're

afraid of that. but everything may happen for a first caucus. before i return. to sort of a job. because probably. after i return the problem is that we have to deal with. the trees and show me negotiate this deal and we have to do huge technical. term needed short of talk is depends not only on us depends also on resource us our partners. ken sands through to his job so it's not in our hands we depend not us. technically we can do and complete a person. who have been realized i don't know if we ask

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 pay for for succession and you have to compare this payment you have made it is only as you 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. real career to any substantial problems for domestic economy or

even even even the limitations on the state supports of the two russian agriculture which which is which was widely discussed in the bush. it was over the discussed but. a figure of speech we protected no negotiations. and many experts confirm the. figures of support will be more than enough to continue our policy in respect of modernization of a good coach. if you compare volume of subsidies which were given to him 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 was competent enough as compared with the current i mean very

clearly it's not the money richard decisive for developments. says mark sim a death of russian w t o negotiating spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay where you are now going will continue in less than a minute. almost seventy years of the red machine which so many people wanted to leave in the. killing to make changes to society was it. wasn't possible to change the country's regime so quickly. and without.

a close only fundamental changes in the state people's minds on r.g.p. . misplace make sign. but another's it sparkles and unexplainable introduced. to a place where supernatural things are happening. probably for. the zone. welcome back to spotlight on al gore novel in just

a reminder that my guest in the studio today is mike scimitar viet gov russian double e.t.l. negotiator we're talking about the possibility of russians a session can double joe 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 at communist your negotiator and put in a political question since that sense he already. i said before that you here agree that there's a lot of parties this and this process georgia's position how tough is georgia and it's been in its. possession we know it has made a couple of efforts to block russians recession to doublecheck is it being successful. continue accession. is in the room. where we negotiate. struve.

from plants. will not support certain but what this means in terms we do not three would. love and to what country to walk 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 do you think that other countries deadly two countries can influence their lisi 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 really is more than one hundred fifty countries. members real

real organized themselves in a way which will eliminate any possibility of blocking of activity of this organization. or even a few members so we were told from the beginning of the accession to the good fish is doing by members members was decisive force you saw as a result of what we hear from most of the capitals. most of the curved 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 which i had 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. as soon as possible to go there live and we hope.

to learn in the next. several weeks i would not say to it several weeks we have very few things on our most sensitive scene for us and for potus. due to use of. colleagues first we're talking about concessions once again says this is this is not a concession then that you're ready to make or not ready to our life is a. concession to some extent yes. we're making a. living every day every day of our lives as a 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 union what what was easier wed where did we would you personally lose more nerves.

what cost you more. you see is the 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 read. with twenty seven members to see is this procedure going scene is something which we have to adjust ourselves as well because we have. a similar procedure in our customs union the difference is we are currently syrians are trying to sort of who are russian bureaucracy can only be compared to berber arsenals bureaucracy also there this may also make it easier to communicate at the time of the take out where is that true. i still hold that we are more effective for this. i measure difference because the countries may have different

positions of same issues and it takes much more time to find a compromise we have much more. country we have. open question so. we have basic problem of expert beauteous if you so. differently. you know that's the discussion and that what we gain we lose if we have to leave china. was. pretty pretty wide 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. lights. has tried to find out in the streets of moscow right there today outside to find out what people in this country think about russia joining the world trade organization. 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 in the world has the same resources as we do so somebody would certainly try to trick us for sure but it would be true it's a very controversial process because we stand to lose a lot of russia's joining the. 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 geo would lead to the removal of customs barriers inter. and foreign competition will force out noncompetitive industries of which we

have many in russia and 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 of that allocation got a question if i guess. if russia would join the w t o would hurt russian industry. your or your answer please will it made her crushes industry. may create problems to. subsectors of some of the surreal life like what. first of all. not competitive and. nobody could trust us to go to so medium level of competent us like the car leakers. i don't think america will suffer. because of comic us if you treat those joint ventures which are functioning now in russia as

a russian companies saying they will win from taxation that we are doing things are ok baby the larger car is way way which has been dying for the last twenty years. but. also we have to modernize its production and. closer sometimes i was discussing different kinds of trying treasuries as well from if you are interesting you said you said that the debt we too 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 please please like me. during all those years of excess and we have received on me. one letter from my industry reach and visit the state. because of doubletalk so we will do it but we will go anyway and this was a from the industry we should produce brushes because

a judge rushes. from one of our companies in siberia because in petition from chinese of the gracias reassured russia is not the i like to throw shows about lol i love shoes brushes the shoe brush so they're not comparable. hard to read include your noising that into the russian oysters are not competitive because. ok now. we know that expert oriented raw material producers would be the first to gain from brushes session to w t o at least this is what the what the papers write and the economic pages but what. 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. the software to the

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

you're not subject to certain rules and. you come in so you may have a substantial problem say an accident at night because it's also really for culture markets thank you thank you very much for being with us i hope to help you succeed just to remind you 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 are in time for your say spotlight or have someone in monte you think i should interview next time to drop me a line at al gore in our paths 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 russia until then stay on r.t. and take it take.