The following is from an 18 January 2013 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the National Research University — Higher School of Economics in Moscow on 18 January 2013, expressed the hope that the Russian Federation “will use the opportunity of WTO accession as part of a wider strategy to improve the competitiveness of the Russian economy and to successfully integrate into the global marketplace, in order to increase welfare for the Russian people”.
The speech is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl263_e.htm