Russia's sanctions against Turkey do not contradict WTO general agreement

 While imposing sanctions on Turkey, Russia did not go outside the framework of the general agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a source with the government's finance and economy bloc has told TASS. "We, on our part, believe that Russia acts exclusively within the framework of the general agreement and its commitments," the source said. 


"All the decisions have been adopted knowingly after a relevant level of work, including on the WTO issues." Earlier, Turkish Economy Minister Mustafa Elitas said that Turkey planned to file a complaint on the Russian economic sanctions with the WTO and international courts.

•  He said that in Russian small towns the Turkish companies had been pressured to hand over their shares to Russian partners.

At the same time, the source told TASS that any country had the right to use the WTO tools.

"And Turkey has this right as a member of the organisation," he said.....
More: http://tass.ru/en/economy/848294
4/1/16
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