Russia to resume WTO negotiations in June - official

MOSCOW | Tue May 25, 2010 6:11pm EDT

MOSCOW May 25 (Reuters) - Russia will next month resume negotiations to join the World Trade Organisation, suspended last year after it decided to form a Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russia's chief negotiator told Reuters.

"On June 17 we will resume the WTO accession talks which had been suspended," Maxim Medvedkov said after informal consultations with members of the working group on Russia's accession in Geneva on Monday and Tuesday.
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