EU denies responsibility for Russia's waiver of unilateral application for WTO entry

China Daily Online News: Russia's unilateral application to join the World Trade Organization setback, Russian officials recently accused the EU should assume responsibility, and the Russian side of the statement June 24 by the EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton denied. According to British media reports, Catherine Ashton's spokesman Lutz Gurna (Lutz Guellner) said 24th: "We deny this statement." We have been pushing this process forward, we have been helping (Russia) and have been very supportive of the Russian application (joining the World Trade Organization). "Russia's first deputy prime minister, Shuvalov, said 23rd that" the EU and the United States should be held responsible for Moscow's decision to renounce its unilateral application for entry to WTO and to join Belarus and Kazakhstan as a whole to apply for accession.　　Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced 9th in Moscow this month that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will begin negotiations to join the World Trade Organization as a unified customs union, while 3 countries will also conclude separate negotiations on the accession to the WTO. Russia began its WTO accession negotiations in 1993, but progress has been slow. To this end, the Russian leadership has repeatedly proposed that will give up the WTO. Some media believe that Russia's accession to the WTO with Belarus and Kazakhstan may only be the means adopted by Russia, is intended to pressure the negotiating partners to complete the accession negotiations as soon as possible.