harry right instead of saying hey we're going to stop doing harrowing they try to just like put some local holy here and try to cure the the local weren't where we know that all is the cause of those about how he's going to court again is not going to work and he's not going to be healed and he's never going to him right in this case you could replace the word heroin with nafta because nafta certainly set up the situation where american subsidized corn products were dumped in south america which cause huge economic dislocation american meat packers were bringing labor up from the south at slave labor wages again huge economic dislocation it was bill clinton causing a horrible slave mentality to be inculcated in monks' the american corporations to victimize mexicans in south americans and now that the folks are migrating up north of the border that people are making this out to be as if this

was not completely predictable under what frickin bill clinton did with nafta anyway oscar thanks so much for being on the kaiser report oh my pleasure mike's keep the good work o'reilly and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert and i want to thank my guests os currently on if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying by. i know that. in moscow all she's available interests marriage grantor journals which colson royal marriage results could be all one marriage will is a holiday in circle new kids. holiday in ski rolls a really emotional to meridian country club so boring short and fun this piece of

the first book called sure can switch search old clothes new hold bill to let me go to school golden beach a coach and. welcome back so i'll see the headlines that hopelessly out. as the war in afghanistan enters its tenets yet the tables turned on coalition soldiers posting us all feel videos on the internet the taliban and using kids at knighted by allied troops to promise the support of the deadline nearing violence in the country shows no sign of a. tension mounts ahead of this weekend's parliamentary elections in politically divided kyrgyzstan security measures are being intensified across the country to avoid clashes the country has been in turmoil says president mbeki of most of the

spread of bloody coup in april. dates look top from the five going to cause much wrong but kazakhstan a soyuz rocket has left the international space station with a payload of navigation and data systems on board a two russian cosmonauts under the market will complete the expedition twenty five trees are expected to dock with the on assess on sunday. what else spend the next six months. those are the headlines now also almost two decades of talks russia's membership of the world trade organization could be just a matter of months away and good old asks moscow's chief negotiator how likely it is that the country will finally join up spotlight is up next.

hello again and welcome to spotlight on our t.v. i'm calgary 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 medvedev who is russia w t i would negotiate or he should know. joining the w true means demolishing trade borders and deactivating protected the canonic mechanisms generally open trade is expected to have a positive impact it's

a new variety of goods reaches consumers turn and exercise more choice as these goods compete but many russian fia w.g. 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 the preventive also has brought the bomb and support their reporting from the ways of the wu board after many false dawns international free trade may soon be a reality. hello mr 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 deadly two year 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 to be sure of concern to our partners or years of negotiations however probably mr own eyes of the right of a few thinks really we have to discuss together with united states and. trading partners into the world within the. framework so we have to do it. but by virtue of disc with us we think it was so 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. agreed 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 with the course of its accession its commitments. in respect of how russia implement troops and most of the negotiated engineer is in a framework by the respect of some of the. united states traditionally. big interest. 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 devil 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. since it was a. it's a condition forward to most of my colleagues who it's a hobby not to me because you're being paid. full time of legislation so until we complete our accession to double turn but you're right. it was his job is rather interesting. and you know you have to know

a little bit 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 assertion 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 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 solved and a common problem is about some of them and somebody that is that's why political support sometimes is needed it and his kind of negotiations spotlights even the did neither has the details on how russia has been trying to speed up its a session to the w.t. how. russia is nearer than ever to the w t o accession that's where russians have heard for several years and their oh 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 as storm in the double. a major second phase which was announced in geneva last month concerns and new

cultural subsidies there 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 shoes on the gender school bright legislation has been considerably improved but in practice eighty percent of attempt to prove corporate violations fail than the us they'd corporations and state 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

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. to make and miss 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 he said if something good happened to slow down the process once again you are afraid of that. but. for a fast shawcross. before i return. to sort of a job as a bad job because probably. after i return the problem is that we have to deal with

it in countries and we negotiated this deal and we have to do huge technical. and. time needed short of talk is depends not only on us depends also on resource us our partners. ten suns through to his job so it's not in our hands we are dependant not us. technically we can do and complete a person. who have been really i don't know if we ask people in the streets they would say that the price we paid to the united states for a devil of a session was the american friends and check russian market is that the price we paid or something more serious. that would talk session as

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 their condition so we believe that we are in a very balanced situation and we have not overpaid and we believe that in the long term run 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 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 confirm the. figures of support will be more than enough to continue our policy in respect of modernization africa. so. if you compare volume of subsidies which were given to agriculture in one to nineteen and no ninety nine to. ninety five billion so if yours dollars and not only four and you compare. that old russian agriculture was competent enough as compared with the current time and very clearly it's not the money richard decisive for developments. says mark sim a death of the russian w t o negotiating spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay where you are then go we'll continue in less than a minute. culture

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the. lines in motion would be soon which brightened if you knew about song from finest impression so. please please start totty dot com. welcome back to spotlight on al green live in just a reminder that. my guest in the studio today is mark's immediate care of russian double negotiator we're talking about the possibility of russians assertion to double g o which is expected by the end of next year by the negotiators by the

kremlin mr madrid give you mentioned that you're a bit of everything a bit of a diplomatic bit of a politician a bit of economist your negotiator and put in a political question since since you you already said before that you you agree that there's a lot of parties 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 ascension to doublecheck is it being successful. continue accession. 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 love and to what country to

accession of the other it has never happened in history and we hope that it will not happen now. 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 and what's your expectation. my expectations. of all the trade body with more than one hundred fifty countries. members real real organize themselves in a way which will eliminate any possibility of blocking traffic to each of these organizations by one 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 curve holds very clear we 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 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 as well that is in an area and these negotiations is there a deadline. there is a deadline. and as soon as possible to go there live. 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 is. due to use experts of. colleagues request concessions of us against this is this is not a concession then that you are ready to make or are 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 a european union is. much more difficult as compared to resist for one reason you have

to resist government with european commission and commission has to really do share it. with twenty seven members to see is this procedure going see is something which we have to adjust ourselves as well because we have. similar procedure in our customs union the difference is we are currently trying to sell who russian bureaucracy can only be compared to brute brussels bureaucracy also there this may also make it easier to communicate for the two or to get where is that true. i still hope that we are more effective for this. but i measure difference because the countries may have different positions. and it takes much more time to find a compromise as we have much more. countries have. questions. we have basic problem of expert beauty.

differently. you know that's the discussion and that what we gain what we lose if we are off to leisure and the devil. 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 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 a 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 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 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 get out of debt allocation get 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 to 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 the us like the card he cares but i don't think america will suffer. because of comic us if you treat mentors which of russia as a russian companies saying they will win from taxation they're doing things are ok the logic car is way way which has been dying for the last twenty years. but.

also we have to modernize its production and. closer discussing different kinds of trying treasures is welcome 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 that blood a car is 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 or. because of double taxation 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 petitioning from chinese of the gracias reassured russia is not the i

like to think russia is about no luck shoe brushes the shoe brush. that they're not comparable. we don't produce one more thing that interest 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 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. a very rooted. exception

a real brink to russia benefits which we were unable to minute enterprise's to be integrated into the world trading system to its cooperation with foreign enterprise's and to really modernize. it as a production of production facilities because reza problem is when you or 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. really it's like cars machines trusts there are huge periods in so trades and if you're not subject to certain rules and. you come out so you may have a substantial problem saying accidents or not it's also really for 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 you get a shot and 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 albury notepads 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.