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Wednesday, 20 August 2003
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT THREATENS TO BLOCK RUSSIA\'S ACCESSION TO WTO
By empty (8/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Addressing a government session in 20 August, Eduard Shevardnadze noted that Russia will need Tbilisi\'s support for its bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), and should therefore resolve its problems in bilateral relations with Georgia. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili listed among those problems Russia\'s economic ties with the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and its failure to prevent the smuggling of contraband into Georgia from North Ossetia. (Interfax).
Addressing a government session in 20 August, Eduard Shevardnadze noted that Russia will need Tbilisi\'s support for its bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), and should therefore resolve its problems in bilateral relations with Georgia. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili listed among those problems Russia\'s economic ties with the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia and its failure to prevent the smuggling of contraband into Georgia from North Ossetia. (Interfax)