Mayor: Russia's position on sanctions, the U.S. has found the support of a number of WTO members
Russia at the meeting of the WTO General Council said that the punishment of the USA and other countries on Russian legal entities violate the provisions of key documents of the organization, and this position was supported by a number of countries-members of WTO, according to a report of the Ministry of economic development.
punishment, for example, violate the provisions of the General agreement on trade in services - the obligation to grant most favored nation treatment, in conflict with the obligations on access to markets of services on domestic regulation, break the rules, regulating payments and transfers, and the rules of the General agreement on tariffs and trade.
" It seems that North America purposefully pushing us to the use of judicial mechanisms of the WTO, which in this case can have extremely negative consequences for the whole of the multilateral trading system ", - said in the appeal of the Russian delegation.
The US and the EU does not recognize the annexation of Crimea to Russia and accused Moscow of interfering in Ukraine. Russia denies it and called such accusations are unacceptable. Western countries since March, has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations and threatened to make wider restrictive measures. The last case of use of such practices have become July punishment.
USA 16 July synchronized own sanctions list with European, imposing visa and financial limits on the part of politicians from Russia, and also introduced sectoral economic penalties on the Russian military and primary organizations. In the U.S. capital and Brussels when it is ready if necessary to make wider sanctions lists. Full list of Russian Citizens and organizations that fall under punishment, -