Customs union members (Russia, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan) agreed to resume negotiations on entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) separately, but ‘at the same time they will speak unanimously on a number of issues’, informed ITAR-Tass with reference to Maxim Medvedkov, Head of the trade negotiations department of the RF Ministry of Economic Development.
As per Medvedkov, seven-day mutual consultations with key countries-members of WTO as well as with the chairmen and members of corresponding groups ended in an agreement that the chairmen would decide on calling of working groups meetings after consultations with their members. Thus, he mentioned, the decision on entering of the three countries the Customs Union ‘independently, separately’ but on equal conditions and simultaneously.