Moscow hopes WTO accession saga will be over in a few days - source
MOSCOW. Oct 28 (Interfax) - Russia is hoping that all the necessary procedures regarding prospects for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be completed in the near future.
"We hope that we will manage to reach the completion of the whole saga and complete all the necessary procedures so as to reach an agreed decision over the next few days," a source from the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.
On Thursday, Georgia accepted the new proposals from the Swiss mediators, regarding the resolution of border control issues, which paves the way toward Russia's WTO membership.
The proposals include an electronic exchange of data on trade and international border control between Russia and the two regions that Georgia considers to be part of its territory - Abkhazia and South Ossetia, head of the Georgian delegation at the Geneva talks Sergi Kapanadze said.
It was reported earlier that Georgia submitted new proposals to Russia at the WTO talks. "The progress of the negotiating process depends on whether the Russian position is constructive, Georgia hopes that its new proposals will become a basis for that," Kapanadze said.
Talks between Moscow and Tbilisi over Russia's WTO membership resumed in March 2011 with Switzerland's mediation.
