Russia Does Not Have to Force Its Way into Financial G8 - Finance Minister
Posted on: Saturday, 11 February 2006, 18:00 CST
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 11 February: At today's meeting in Moscow [of the G8 financial ministers] Russia did not focus attention on being accepted into full members of the financial G8, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin told journalists today.
"This will happen naturally, so that no-one has any doubts that Russia is ready to discuss at high level not only political matters and international development programmes but also issues of a financial-economic nature," the minister said.
Kudrin said the finance ministers had held talks in Moscow not as "seven plus one" but as "eight".
He said "in private conversations several of my colleagues confirmed their interest in Russia joining this elite financial club". So far only the German finance minister made a statement to this effect in public.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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