RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL DISCUSS TRADE PROBLEMS








MOSCOW, March 5, RIA Novosti correspondent Alexander  Ivashchenko - Russia and the European Union will hold a regular session of the sub-committee for trade and industry which is  acting within the framework of the Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the European  Union, reported the office of the European Commission in the  Russian Federation. 


	The issues to be discussed include mutual access to  commodity markets, removal of trade restrictions and the problems concerning the negotiation process for Russia's joining the World Trade Organisation. 


	Quite possibly they will also discuss the expansion of the European Union at the expense of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the influence of this process on the trade  between the European Union and the Kaliningrad Region (the  Russian enclave in the Baltic). -O-   (kos/kaf)   05/03/01    16:47