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Arming Syria: Europe now targets Russia on WTO obligations!
BY DR.
ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL
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Having
miserably failed to get Russia in their gang-up over Syria-Iran
issues, Americans and Europeans are trying all economic tricks to make the
Kremlin work for US-Israeli interests and end its support for Syrian president
Al Assad who buys huge arsenals of Russian terror goods. .
It was with pinch of a salt that Russia was admitted into WTO-
essentially western capitalist economic undertaking. The European Union
launched the first formal trade dispute with Russia at the World Trade
Organization on 16th July, less than a year after Moscow joined
the trading club.
Russia, former super power, was made to crawl for
toolong to enter the WTO. West say joining the WTO is a compact,
with the cost of signing up to tough standards offset by the benefits of
gaining access to a globally regulated market with guarantees against
protectionism.
The EU has told the WTO it held that Russia was illegally
protecting its carmakers with a recycling fee levied on imported cars, and had
given up waiting for Moscow to change the law.
Western powers of notorious NATO
insists Russia to end its hostility towards NATO because “Islamic
terrorism” remains a threat and only NATO can face it.
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said the European
Commission has pursued every diplomatic channel for almost one year now to find
a solution with our Russian partners on this matter but to no avail. The fee is
incompatible with the WTO's most basic rule prohibiting discrimination against
and among imports.
U.S. trade officials in Washington said they were also concerned
about the recycling fee that Russia imposes on cars. The
dispute follows repeated warnings from Brussels about what it sees as Russia's
noncompliance and loud dissent in Russia about the merits of being in the WTO
at all.
The EU says the fee has a severe impact on 10 billion Euros ($12.9
billion) of annual exports, and says Russia's own estimates show it generates
1.3 billion euros in Russian government revenues.
If, however, Russia agrees with USA over Syrian issue and help the
western rogue states and Israel attack Iran over the fake
nuke issue, WTO would overlook the fee issue, it is
learnt. Russian terror goods sold in markets are cheaper than the American
and this factor annoys American leaders.
Russia’s reliance on international arms trade has become a
dominant factor in deciding Russia’s overall international relations policies. Russia
remains the world’s second largest arms exporter after the dictatorial United States
that tires to cut Rusian arms trade to size. On June 24, President Vladimir
Putin disclosed that compared to the same period in last year, the first six
months of this year witnessed a 15 percent increase in Russia’s arms exports.
In 2012, Russia’s arms exports were worth $15.7 billion, a 12 percent increase
from the year before. Russia’s stubborn insistence on siding with the
pariah regime of Bashar Assad in Syria highlights an important economic factor:
Russia’s heavy dependence on its arms export industry at the expense of Moscow’s
international status and responsibility.
Observation
Russians believe that Sept-11 was engineered by Americans and
Israelis to claim legitimacy for the continuance of NATO even after the end of
cold war, though they do not openly say in so many words because of
anti-Islamic stance of Russia. Exposing Sept-11 terror gimmicks to
fool the Americans and terrorize the humanity on that pretext would not benefit
Russians because they want ot make all Muslim nations in the
federation give up Islam. . .
War on Islam initiated by Bush family and Neocon led Pentagon
rogues has brought all anti-Islam rogue states together and Russia plays very
important role.
So, the western terrocracies expect Russia to behave the Western
way and stop supporting Syria and Iran.
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