May 25-29, 2009, Geneva
A regular round of consultations of the Chairman of the Working Party on Russia's WTO accession - discussion of the proposals from the Russian side on the remaining unresolved issues.
April 26-30, 2009, Geneva
Consultations in the WTO Secretariat on completing the work on the list of Russian commitments on the market access for goods.
March 23-27, 2009, Geneva
Consultations in the WTO Secretariat on the list of Russian commitments on the market access for goods. Meetings with members of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO for discussion of WP's report and a number of systemic issues. Consultations of the chairman of the Working Party on Russia's accession to the WTO with WP members on the final report.
March 17-19, 2009, Brussels
Negotiations between Russian delegation and the European Commission on a number of systemic issues in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
November 24-25, 2008, Geneva
Consultations of the chairman of the Working Party (WP) on the final
report on Russia's accession to the WTO.
September 18, 2008, Geneva
Consultations of the chairman of the Working Party (WP) on the final report on Russia's accession to the WTO. Further action development.
July 15-19, 2008, Geneva
Multilateral talks on SPS issues. Consultations with WTO members on
completing some parts of the Working Party's draft report on
Russia's WTO Accession.
June 2-3, 2008, Riyadh
Bilateral talks on access to the goods and services markets in the
framework of Russia's accession to the WTO.
February 17-20, 2008, Geneva
Bilateral negotiations with representatives of the United Arab Emirates (on February 17), Saudi Arabia (on February 18), Georgia (on February 20) and informal consultations with members of the Working Party on Russia's WTO accession.
December 14, 2007 Geneva
Bilateral talks with representatives of the United Arab Emirates in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
October 23, 2007 Geneva
Bilateral talks with Saudi Arabia to be held as part of Russia’s bid to join the WTO
October 22, 2007 Geneva
Consultations within the framework of the Working Party on the final report on Russia’s accession to the WTO
October 19, 2007, Geneva
Bilateral talks with Georgia’s delegation as part of Russia’s bid to join the WTO
October 01-05, 2007, Washington
A regular round of consultations on the draft of the Working Party's report on Russia's WTO accession with US and EU representatives
September 26-27, 2007, Geneva
Bilateral talks with Saudi Arabia on system issues and access to the goods and services markets in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
July 23-27, 2007, Geneva
A regular round of consultations with members of the Working Party in the framework of talks on Russia's accession to the WTO
July 10, 2007, Geneva
Consultations of the chairman of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO with the WP's members.
May 30-31, 2007, Tbilisi
Bilateral talks with Georgia in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
May 24-25, 2007, Phnom Penh
Bilateral talks with Cambodia on access to the markets of goods and services in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
April 04-06, 2007, Phnom Penh
Bilateral talks with Cambodia on access to the market of goods and services in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
April 01-03, 2007, Hanoi
Bilateral talks with Vietnam on access to the market of goods and services in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO
February 26 – March 03, 2007, Geneva
Plurilateral consultations with a series of countries in the framework of the Working Party (WP)
on Russia’s accession to the WTO on agriculture, customs administration,
intellectual property protection and some other issues.
October 24-25, 2006, Washington
Bilateral negotiations between Russia and the US on remaining unresolved issues in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO.
October 09-13, 2006, Geneva
Plurilateral consultations with some countries. Consultations with the chairman of the Working Party on Russia's accession to the WTO. Bilateral talks with the US.
September 27- 29, 2006, Washington
Bilateral negotiations between Russia and the US on Russia's accession to the WTO.
September 25-26, 2006, Geneva
The WTO Public Forum: “What WTO in the XXI century?”
June 06-07, 2006, Geneva
Talks on system issues with a series of countries in the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO.
March 20-28, 2006., Geneva
A regular formal meeting of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's WTO Accession. The discussion of the WP Report.
February 28 - March 09, 2006., Geneva
Consultations in the framework of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. Discussions dealing with the next parts of the Working Party Report were the focus point of the consultations.
January 25-29, 2006 , Davos
German Gref, head of the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade (MEDT),
and Maxim Medvedkov, director of the trade talks department of the MEDT, visit the World Economic Forum
in Davos. Talks on Russia's accesison to the WTO with members of the Working Party continue.
December 13-18, 2005, Hong Kong
The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference
October 14-21, 2005, Geneva
A regular round of talks on Russia’s accession to the WTO: bilateral negotiations with a series of states on access to the markets of goods and services, in particular, with Brazil, Argentina, the USA, Canada, sessions of working groups on veterinary and phitosanitary measures; a regular 29th session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO – discussion of the final WP report.
October 10-11, 2005, Moscow
Russian-Canadian negotiations within the framework of Russia’s accession to the WTO.
September 26-30, 2005, Washington
Russian-American negotiations within the framework of Russia's accession to the WTO.
July 25-29, 2005, Geneva
A series of bilateral negotiations on the WTO accession with the delegations of the US, Brazil, Argentina and Peru on access to the market of goods and services.
June 20-29, 2005. Geneva
A regular meeting of the Working Party on Russia's WTO Accession (22.06-24.06.05).
The discussion of the third edition of the WP Report. A series of bilateral talks on access to the
market of goods and services and multilateral consultations on agriculture, sanitary and veterinary measures.
The discussion and clarification of concrete definitions in the WP Report.
April 12-22, 2005, Geneva
A regular 27th meeting of the Working Party (WP) on Russia’s WTO accession (April 15, 2005).
Continuation of the work on the WP report. A series of bilateral talks on the access to the markets of
goods and services. Multilateral talks: discussion and clarification of concrete wordings of Russia’s
WTO accession commitments.
March 28 - April 07, 2005, Washington
Bilateral Russia-U.S. negotiations on Russia's WTO accession.
February 14-18, 2005, Geneva
A regular 26 th session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO.
Continuation of work on the WP report. A series of bilateral talks on the access to the markets of goods and services.
January 31, 2005, Zurich
The meeting between Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.
January 27-28, 2005, Paris
Russia-US bilateral talks on Russia's WTO accession (planning of the meeting between Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick).
January 24-26, 2005, Geneva
A series of bilateral negotiations on the WTO accession with the delegations of India and Turkey on access to the market of goods and services.
November 15-18, 2004, Geneva
A regular 25 th session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO
Review of the third draft of the Protocol of the Working Party (WP)
November 10- 17, 2004, Geneva
Bilateral negotiations between the Russian delegation and the delegations of Canada and Japan
on the access to the market of goods and services and on the system issues in the framework of negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO.
October 16 – 29, 2004, Bangkok – Canberra - Kuala Lumpur – Djakarta – Singapore
A series of bilateral talks with delegations of Tailand, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore in the framework of Russia’s WTO accession.
October 4-8, 2004, Washington
Russia-US bilateral talks on Russia's WTO accession
September 27- 30, 2004, Geneva
A series of bilateral talks on Russia’s WTO accession with delegations of Singapore, Republic of Korea, Australia, Panama, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and Turkey
September 23-24, 2004, Moscow
Bilateral Russian-Chinese talks on Russia's WTO accession
September 6-7, 2004, Beijing
Bilateral Russian-Chinese talks on Russia's WTO accession
July 15-16, 2004, Geneva
A regular session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO.
Discussion of final sections of WP's report.
May 12-13, 2004. Paris.
Russian Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref will meet U.S.
Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.
Maxim Medvedkov, the head of the Russian delegation at the WTO accession talks and the director
of trade negotiations department at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, will also be
present at the talks.
April 26-28, 2004, Moscow
Russia-U.S. bilateral talks on Russia's WTO accession.
April 22, 2004, Moscow
A meeting between Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref
and EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy
April 19-21, 2004, Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
Russia-EU bilateral negotiations on Russia's WTO accession
February 2-6, 2004, Geneva
A regular session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO.
Multilateral consultaions on the issues of agriculture and Customs Code.
January 26-30, 2004, Brussels
Russia-EU bilateral talks in the framework of Russia's WTO accession.
December 01-05, 2003, Moscow
Bilateral Russian-EU talks on Russia's accession to the WTO
November 24-28, 2003, Washington
Bilateral Russian-American talks on the access to the market of goods and services
and on the system issues in the framework of negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO
October 24-31, 2003, Geneva
A regular session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO
October 16, 2003, Moscow
Visit of EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy to Moscow. Russia-EU negotiations on energy and Russia's WTO accession.
October 7, 2003, Brussels
A meeting between Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy
September 24-26, 2003, Tokio
Bilateral negotiations between Russia and Japan on Russia’s accession to the WTO
September 20-21, 2003, Beijing
Bilateral negotiations between Russia and China on Russia’s accession to the WTO
September 8-13, 2003, Cancun, Mexico
Bilateral negotiations between the Russian delegation and the delegations of
Australia, Mexico, Austria, Thailand, Bulgaria, Panama, Israel, Peru,
Romania, Paraguay, Latvia, Venezuela, Denmark, Argentina, Kyrgystan, Sri
Lanka, Brasilia, Chili on goods and services
September 10-14, 2003, Cancun, Mexico
The Fifth WTO Ministerial Conference
July 22, 2003, Moscow
A Russian government session considering the course of negotiations on
Russia's WTO accession
July 7, 2003, Geneva
A regular session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO
July 2, 2003, Strasbourg
A meeting between Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy
June 3 - 5, 2003, Moscow
Russia - EU consultations on tariffs, services, energy and agriculture.
Discussion of the third version of the Working Party (WP) report on Russia's
accession to the WTO.
April 11, 2003, Moscow
A conference "EU Enlargement: New Opportunities for Russia?"
April 7, 2003, Geneva
The beginning of another round of the negotiations on the accession of Russia to the WTO
March 28, 2003, Paris
A meeting between Vice-Premier Alexey Kudrin and Deputy Minister Maxim Medvedkov with EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy for bilateral consultations within the framework of the negotiations on the accession of Russia to the WTO.
March 28, 2003, Paris
Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref will meet EU
Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy to discuss the course of EU-Russian
negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO.
March 06, 2003, Geneva
Final session of the Working Party on Russia's accession to the WTO
March 04, 2003, Geneva
Multilateral meeting on energy
March 03, 2003, Geneva
Multilateral meeting on agriculture
February 28, 2003, Geneva
Multilateral meeting on access to the services market
January 27, March 3, April 7, 2003, Geneva
Sessions of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO according to the negotiations schedule for the beginning of 2003 adopted by the 16th WP's session in Geneva in December 2002. The sessions' agenda includes discussion of the WP's draft report on accession of Russia to the WTO, interim conclusions and further steps.
A series of bilateral negotiations on goods and services is to be held in Geneva starting from January 27, 2003
December 18-20, 2002 in Geneva
16th official session of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the WTO.
Multilateral consultations on energy, services and agriculture.
December 8-20, 2002 in Geneva
Bilateral negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO
December 6, Chelyabinsk
Interregional conference "WTO and Interests of Business Community of the
Ural Region"
November 01, 2002, Geneva
Informal session of the Working Party on Russia's accession to the WTO: to review the second edition of the Working Party's Report, to specify a date of the next Working Party's official session.
October 28 - November 01, 2002, Geneva
Round of bilateral negotiations on access to the market of goods and services, multilateral consultations on energy sector (October 30, 2002), agriculture (October 31, 2002) and services (November 01, 2002)
October 25, 2002, St. Petersburg
Talks between Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the RF German Gref, his deputy Maxim Medvedkov and European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy over the issues of Russia's accession to the WTO.
October 24, 2002, Moscow
Prime Minister of the RF Mikhail Kasyanov meets European Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy to discuss the course of negotiations on various aspects of Russia's entry into the WTO.
October 14-17, 2002, Moscow
A series of bilateral negotiations on the WTO accession with the EU and US
delegations concerning access to the market of goods and services, and the
agriculture. Consideration of the report prepared by the Working Party on
Russia’s WTO accession.
October 16, 2002, Moscow
International Congress of the Adam Smith Institution (the Great Britain)
“Accession of Russia to the WTO”
October 1-3, 2002, Evian
3rd International Business Summit of the CIS:
“Doing business in the CIS: is WTO a tool or an end in itself?”
October 17-19, 2002, Irkutsk
2nd Baikal Economic Forum
Regional conferences: "Russia, World Trade Organization and the Interests of the Business Community".
Held by the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade with participation of the members of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the negotiations on accession of Russia to the World Trade Organization.
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Sochi |
September 6, 2002 |
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Magnitogorsk |
September 3, 2002 |
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Arkhangelsk |
August 15, 2002 |
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Irkutsk |
July 29, 2002 |
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Vladivostok |
July 26, 2002 |
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
July 23, 2002 |
June 17-21, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland
Fifteenth formal meeting of the Working Party (WP) on accession of Russia to the WTO. Second reading of the Report of the WP.
February - May, 2002
“Round table” discussions in the regions of Russia on the topic: “Economic
and Legal Issues of Accession of Russia to the WTO: Regional Aspect”. The
events are conducted together wtih the Russian Foundation for Legal Reform in the framework of the "Legal Culture" project,
Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of the RF and the WTO Information
Office.
Meetings on the topic “Development of agriculture in the regions in the
view of Russia’s accession to the WTO”
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Krasnoyarsk - Novosibirsk |
May 14, 2002 - May 15, 2002 |
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Volgograd |
May 14, 2002 |
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Khabarovsk |
April 29, 2002 |
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Samara |
April 29, 2002 |
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Kaliningrad |
April 26, 2002 |
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Voronezh |
April 25, 2002 |
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Krasnodar |
April 15, 2002 |
Discussions on the topic “Services market development in the view of
Russia's WTO accession”
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Khabarovsk |
April 9, 2002 |
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Voronezh |
April 8, 2002 |
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Kaliningrad |
April 5, 2002 |
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Krasnodar |
March 29, 2002 |
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Novosibirsk |
March 28, 2002 |
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Samara |
March 28, 2002 |
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Krasnoyarsk |
March 27, 2002 |
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Volgograd |
March 22, 2002 |
Discussions on the topic “Goods market development in the view of
Russia's WTO accession”
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Kaliningrad |
March 15, 2002 |
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Krasnoyarsk |
March 14, 2002 |
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Novosibirsk |
March 13, 2002 |
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Khabarovsk |
March 11, 2002 |
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Voronezh |
March 5, 2002 |
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Samara |
February 28, 2002 |
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Volgograd |
February 26, 2002 |
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Krasnodar |
February 21, 2002 |
April 23-24, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland.
Review of the first draft of the Protocol of the Working Party (WP) on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization by the WP's
members.
March 17-20, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland
Bilateral and multilateral negotiations and consultations on tariffs, services, technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures with the countries-members of the Working Party on Accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO
March 14, 2002, Moscow
Meeting of the Governmental Commission on Accession of the Russian Federation to the
WTO. Revision of the results of negotiations throughout the last six months. Working out directives for further
negotiations.
Thirteenth formal meeting of the Working Party (WP) on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization
January 23-24, 2002, Geneva, Switzerland
Series of bilateral talks with WTO Members on services market access in the framework of the process of Russia's accession to WTO
December 3-11, 2001, Geneva, Switzerland
The Fourth Ministerial Conference of the WTO IN DOHA, KATAR
November 9-13, 2001
Regional Conference: "Russia, WTO and Interests of the Business Community"
Moscow, Russia, October 18, 2001
Negotiations with the WTO member states on services market access
October 1-5, 2001, Geneva, Switzerland
Bilateral negotiations on tariffs between the Russian Federation
and members of the Working Party on Russia's accession to
the World Trade Organization
September 24-28, 2001, Geneva, Switzerland
Bilateral trade negotiations between the Russian Federation and Norway
on tariffs, non-tariff barriers, services and agriculture
September 16-19, 2001. Oslo, Norway
REGIONAL CONFERENCES
“RUSSIA, WTO and BUSINESS INTEREST”
Conducted by:
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation ;
With participation of :
Economic Policy and Enterprise Committee of Russian State Duma ;
Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
| Ekaterinburg |
July 30, 2001 |
| Rostov-on-Don |
August 2, 2001 |
| Nizhni Novgorod |
August 30, 2001 |
| Novosibirsk |
September 3, 2001 |
| Khabarovsk |
September 6, 2001 |
| St. Petersburg |
September 20, 2001 |
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