By IRNA,
Moscow : Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia may opt out of the World Trade Organization accession talks in protest at the US sabotaging the process.
Also Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia might cut its ties with NATO.
Putin said at a regular meeting of his Presidium that it was “sensible” to abandon some of the commitments Russia made during the WTO accession talks.
“We don’t see or feel advantages from the membership, if they exist at all, but we are carrying the burden,” he said according to Itar-Tass.
Russia’s readiness to renege on agreements reached over more than 15 years of WTO talks appeared aimed at pre-empting a threat by the United States to deny Russia entry into the WTO as punishment for its military action in Georgia.