from rising oil prices analysts say speculators have changed the bearish mood for a bullish one i mean they announced minutes of proportion horrible that the russian officials who predicted to send against abortion. had rushed those are getting more pissed mystic about the economic outlook that's according to federal statistics service which has told five hundred five thousand people across the country around twenty five percent expect economic conditions to get worse in the next twelve months that's competitor just seventeen percent in second quarter and more than one third of the citizens say their financial standing has declined russians increased spending on food last year at the expense of consumer goods. well that's all we have time for knowledge join me next hour for more. in the little bit of. the.

five thirty pm here in the russian capital deal with the headlines now as the war in afghanistan reaches a online videos posted by nato told us are undermining the coalition's reputation islamic extremist websites are using direct links to clips uploaded by allied troops to drum up new support for the taliban. unrest flares are once again in days before parliamentary elections due to security is being

intensified across the country ahead of sunday's poll. the head of u.s. overseas broadcasting in america is international news channels including r.t. he says the u.s. needs to shout louder in the global media was. almost two decades of talks russia has membership of the world trade organization could be just a matter of months away i'll go to moscow's chief negotiator how likely that is that the contrie will finally join up spotlight as next. hello again and welcome to spotlight day and see the show on our t.v. i'm al green now and today my guest in the studio is mark seem to vets pop. 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 presently bet it also has brought the bomb and support their important voice in the w t o board after many false dawns international free trade may soon be. home is to prevent thank you very much for coming to a show welcome to spotlight well first of all on the first offer 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 ichiro and code 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. with

us which are of concern to our partners or years of negotiations. probably mr on is of the right if you think symmetry we have to discuss together with united states and. trading partners into the world within the. framework so we have to do it. about. virtual disk with us we think it was well russia has already signed by letter 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 hanoi we agreed on terms of market access to russian. market of goods and services but we have not discussed the so-called systemic commitments be sure

russia has to undertake a course of its accession its commitments. in respect of how russia implement troops and most was negotiated engineer was in a little framework about in respect of some of the. united states traditionally. big interest the more interest of the other you know finding solutions 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 force of since you russia's negotiator on the deadly issues who do you think you are who you feel to be are you an 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 forward to most of my colleagues who it's a hobby not to me because i have been paid. for the time of negotiations until we complete our obsession to double turn but you're right. this is rope is a rather interesting. and you know you have to know a little bit from different different eras of diplomacy history economics 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 method does it mean that the session to the deadly terror of a new country is a purely political issue not an economic political issue so. it's interesting question in most cases it is it should be economic. and in most cases it is economic in some cases it is not and does 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 needed it and this 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. how. russia is nearer than ever to the w two your accession that's 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 years this diamond miter medvedev is really putting pressure on his team 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 their own by the year two thousand and seventeen state support for the agricultural sector will be hard new compromises are expected to follow soon among press in the

shoes on the agenda school bright legislation has been considerably improved but in practice eighty percent of attempt to prove copyright violations fail than the us they'd corporations and stayed purchases which raise questions with other members of the double 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 in 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 the little documents it's made according to the most optimistic forecast the procedure of russia's accession will start in few 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. to make and this concessions to w two your countries. in one of the interviews you said miss 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 he said if something good happened to slow down the process once again you're afraid of that but. 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. countries and we negotiated this deal and we have to do huge technical. and. time

needed for 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 are dependant not us. technically we can do we can complete a person soon but. 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 only as you

expectations you get from. membership in the organisation 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 create any substantial problems for domestic economy or even even even the limitations on the states supported 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 confirmed. figures of support will be more than enough to continue our policy in respect of modernization of culture.

if you compare i was over. subsidies. in one to nineteen and no ninety nine to. ninety five so if you're dollars and not only four and you compare well as a. convert to an office compared with a continent we're a cravat it's not some money should decisive developments says for russian. negotiator spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay where you are down we'll continue in less than a minute. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get

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e.t.l. negotiator we're talking about the possibility of russians assertion that the chair which is expected by the end of next year by the negotiators by the kremlin mr medvedev you mentioned that you're a bit of everything better the diplomat of a politician a better economy you're negotiating and. a political question since that sense he already said before that you hear agree that there's a lot of politics in this and this process georgia's position how tough is georgia and its been in it and position we know it has made a couple of efforts to block russians assertion to double check is it being successful. the recent continue accession. is in the room. where we negotiate. was true that we have heard from plans. will not support our session but what this means in terms of

terms we do not treat the rules of the. 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 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 really is more than one hundred fifty countries. members real real

organize themselves in a way which we'll eliminate any possibility of blocking off activities or was asian . 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. most of the curve towards very clearly would like to see russia as a member as soon as possible ok now i would call it talks about negotiations with the united states which which i definitely over and over successfully now what about now what about talks with the european union what is the what is the deadline now and what he's in an era in these negotiations is there a deadline. there is a deadline. and as soon as possible to go there live and we hope. to learn in the next. several weeks i will not said to exist. we have

very few things on our most sensitive scene for us and for populous. due to use of. colleagues first talking about concessions once again says this is this is not a concession that they're there to ready to make or are not ready to meet our life which is a. concession to some extent yes. 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 union what what was easier wed where did we when did you personally lose more nerves. what cost you more. you see

is a european union is. much more difficult as compared to resist for one reason you have to resist government through the european commission and commission has to renegotiate. with twenty seven members to seizure is this procedure you going see it is something which we have to address ourselves as well because we have. similar procedure in our customs union the difference is we are currently the syrians are trying to so who are russian bureaucracy can only be compared to berber arsenals bureaucracy also there this may also make it easier to communicate together to weather to get where is that true. i still hope that we are more effective for this. but i measure difference because countries may have different positions. and it takes much more time to find a compromise as we have much more. countries have.

open question so. we have basic problem of expert beauteous if you solve the problem. differently to solve. the discussion and that what we gain we lose if we are off to leave. 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 journey. has tried to find out in the streets of moscow there today i'll try 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 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. in turn 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 get out of that allocation get a question if i guess. if russia would join the w t o we'd heard russian industry. your own safety as well it mate russia's industry. may create programs to. subsectors of some of the three like we like what. first. not competitive. and. nobody could trust us to go to so medium level of competition in us like the current leakers but i don't think america will suffer. because come back us if you treat mentors which of russia as a russian companies saying they will from taxation that are doing things are ok

they are big big big the lot a car is a way away 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 trunk pressures as well from if you are interesting you said you said that the debt we to membership can can hurt the industries which are not competitive i don't know anything less competitive that block the cars on the european market so what's less comparative 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 status because of doubletalk so we will do it but we will go anyway and this was from the industry we should produce brushes because it just brushes. from one of our companies in siberia

because in petitioning from chinese of the brushes sure the russians are not the i like russia is a word lol i like shoe brushes the shoe brushes are. not completely. gone we don't produce the noising that's interesting russian oysters i'm not complaining. it was 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 won't. 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 musicians.

who. are. exceptional really bring to russia substantial benefits which we were unable to minute enterprise's to be integrated into the world trading system to start cooperation with foreign enterprises and to really modernize. it was a production production facilities because reza problem is when you know if you supply only gas and oil i'm not big bear us to and sort through it so you probably don't need to but if you would like to supply the products. it's like cars machines aircraft there are huge various traits and if you

are not subject to certain rules and you're a newcomer so you may have a substantial problems in accidents at uk it's also valid for culture markets thank you thank you very much for being with us i hope i hope you succeed just to remind you that my guest in the studio today was much similar to the russian w t hope. that's it for now from all of us here if you're 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 green of pat's r.t. t.v. dot our year and let's keep this 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.