Georgian MFA Warns Moscow over Wine Talks with Sokhumi

The Georgian Foreign Ministry warned Russia?s consumer protection agency on November 8 that any agreement reached with the secessionist authorities in Abkhazia will be illegal.

Chief of Russia?s Consumer Protection Agency Genady Onishchenko said that his agency is in talks with breakaway Abkhazia about the possibility of introducing Abkhaz wines to the Russian market. Russia banned imports of Georgian wines in March 2006.

?He [Onishchenko] not only unreasonably bans the import of Georgian products on the Russian market, thus considerably obstructing Russia?s accession to the World Trade Organization, but also makes statements, specifically on the treatment of Georgian-Russian trade relations, which go far beyond his competences,? the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on November 8.

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