Ambassador: the Slovenians believe that the punishment of the West in conflict with the principles of the WTO
The business community of Slovenia believes that the anti-punishment in conflict with the principles, the officials also referred to as restrictive measures against Russia counterproductive, said Russian Ambassador to Slovenia Doku Zavgayev.
"in Slovenian business community in General have a negative attitude towards introduced by the Brussels anti-Russian sanctions, which draw the attention of the local businessmen in conflict with the principles of world trade organization and cause some harm to our economies," said the diplomat in an interview Last news .
Zavgaev added that " the official Ljubljana from the beginning of the introduction of anti-Russian punishment considers them counterproductive and inappropriate ".
According to the Russian Ambassador, the Russian-Slovenian Relations are characterized by stable positive dynamics.
"Despite the anti-Russian punishment, the bilateral trade volume in 2014 was 102, 5% compared to 2013 and reached 1. 7 billion dollars. However, this year has been caused by the General situation with a wealth of cooperation Russia-EU and fluctuations of exchange rate of ruble to Euro, " said Zavgaev.
He said that the residence of the Ambassador together with the Russian-Slovenian intergovernmental Commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation and the Business Council "Russia-Slovenia "" develops and adopts additional measures to minimize the negative impact on mutual trade and economic cooperation ".
Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. At the end of July, the EU and the US from point penalties against private individuals and organizations have moved to the measures against entire sectors of Russia's economy. In response, Russia restricted imports of food items from countries that have entered against her punishment: USA, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway.