XIANGGANG (Hong Kong), December 14 (RIA Novosti, Mark Zavadsky) - Russia hopes to complete bilateral talks on accession to the World Trade Organization with two or three more countries and sign final agreements with four or five at the sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong, an economy ministry official said Wednesday.
Maxim Medvedkov, head of the trade relations department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry, told journalists that Russia still had not completed talks with the U.S., Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Uruguay, Costa Rica or Colombia.
Bilateral talks have been concluded but final agreements remain to be signed with Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Moldova, Honduras and Panama.
