Georgia-Russia WTO talks are bilateral issue in which Washington has no role, a White House official said, adding that Tbilisi wants to focus specifically on trade issue without making “it a bigger debate.”

From: Civil.ge

Michael McFaul, President Obama’s special assistant and National Security Council’s senior director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs was speaking to reporters via conference call ahead of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Russia next week.

McFaul said that Washington made it clear to both Moscow and Tbilisi that it was in the U.S. “national interest for Russia to be a member of the WTO.”

Georgian officials have said for number of times recently that Tbilisi’s position over Russia’s WTO entry remained unchanged. Georgia says that it is not against of Russia’s WTO entry, but under the condition that Moscow makes border crossing points in breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia “transparent”.

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