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WASHINGTON, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA), Sberbank of Russia and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sberbank Leasing, have reached an agreement on an order for 12 Next-Generation 737-800s. The airplanes are intended for operational leasing under Sberbank's contract with Transaero, one of Sberbank's key corporate customers. Valued at more than $1 billion at current list prices, the deal will help lay the groundwork for developing an environment for finance and...
By Aleksandras Budrys MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia threatened on Thursday to scrap preferences for U.S. poultry and red meat shipments if Washington failed to endorse Moscow's accession bid for the World Trade Organization within three months. "If talks (on Russia's WTO entry)...set for the end of October in Geneva fail, Russia will have to return to its original stance prior to agreements on (bilateral) meat trade that had been reached," Economy Minister German Gref said in a letter to...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will scrap preferences for U.S. poultry and red meat imports if Washington does not endorse Moscow's accession bid for the World Trade Organization within three months, the Economy ministry said on Thursday. "If talks (on Russia's WTO entry)... set for the end of October in Geneva fail, Russia will have to return to its original stance prior to agreements on (bilateral) meat trade that had been reached," a ministry statement quoted a letter by Minister German...
By Douglas Busvine ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and the United States failed on Saturday to strike a bilateral deal allowing Russia to join the World Trade Organization but agreed to set a deadline to wrap up talks within three months. Negotiators who have been discussing Russia's 13-year-old WTO bid virtually non-stop since Wednesday were unable to achieve a final breakthrough on a key "deliverable" ahead of the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg. "There is more work...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian and U.S. trade negotiators have failed in marathon talks to strike a bilateral deal to pave the way for Russia to join the World Trade Organization, a U.S. trade spokesman said on Saturday. "A final agreement has not been reached, but significant progress was made," Sean Spicer, spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, told Reuters. Schwab's team negotiated into the early hours of Saturday morning with their Russian counterparts...
By Douglas Busvine ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush arrived in Russia on Friday planning to press President Vladimir Putin at a weekend G8 summit over concerns the Kremlin is curbing the rights of the Russian opposition and media. After pledging to "continually remind Russia" that good ties with the West depend on sharing common democratic values, Bush flew to St Petersburg from Germany, a day before a meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations....
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and the United States resumed marathon talks on Friday aimed at reaching agreement on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization ahead of a Group of Eight summit. The Kremlin is keen for a deal before the weekend G8 summit in the northern city of St Petersburg, where President Vladimir Putin will host world leaders including George W. Bush. The two leaders were to meet later in the day. The WTO negotiations went into a third day on...
By Douglas Busvine ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush arrived in Russia on Friday planning to press President Vladimir Putin at a weekend G8 summit over concerns the Kremlin is curbing the rights of the Russian opposition and media. After pledging to "continually remind Russia" that good ties with the West depend on sharing common democratic values, Bush flew to St Petersburg from Germany, a day before a meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations....
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and the United States resumed marathon talks on Friday aimed at reaching agreement on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization ahead of a Group of Eight summit. The Kremlin is keen for a deal before the weekend G8 summit in the northern city of St Petersburg, where President Vladimir Putin will host world leaders including George W. Bush. The two leaders were to meet later in the day. The WTO negotiations went into a third day on...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Washington was hampering Russian efforts to negotiate entry to the World Trade Organization. "We would like to see Russia a member of the WTO but the agreement has to conform to WTO rules and it has to be something that will pass congressional scrutiny and conforms to international rules," Rice told reporters en route to Berlin. The United States has concerns...
