MOSCOW. June 9. (Interfax) - Russia needs to focus on searching for special legitimate measures to protect the market amid falling duties on live hog imports, instead of adjusting the terms of its World Trade Organization (WTO) accession agreement, Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said.

"I don't think that we need to spend time these days revising our agreement with the WTO," he said during a presentation at a ministerial collegium dedicated to the development of the hog industry.

"Let's spend time developing thin, fine, special protective measures. We need to take into account the nuances, details and secrets used in advanced countries, including the judicial, the technical and the technological," Fyodorov said.

Head of the National Pig Breeders Union Yury Kovalev emphasized the necessity of revising the WTO agreement and adopting special protective measures related to live hog imports.

Several months ago, the union elaborated measures that could neutralize the negative consequences that Russian accession to the WTO could have for Russian hog breeders. "These proposals underpin the plan developed the Economic Development Ministry - the plan to adapt the agriculture complex to WTO conditions," Kovalev said.

"We are most concerned that the essence of these proposals not be diluted during the transitional period of the beginning of the government's work. (