Gref will meet with Turkish Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen.
Earlier, RIA Novosti reported, with reference to the head of the ministry's department of trade negotiations Maksim Medvedkov, that Russia had practically completed its negotiations with Turkey and Iceland on its joining the WTO.
"With Turkey, the negotiations have practically been completed, and I believe that in the next few days we shall announce this," he said on Monday.
At the end of February, deputy director of the trade negotiations department Andrei Kushnirenko said that technically the negotiations on Russia's entry into the WTO could be finished in the middle of 2005.
According to him, currently the negotiations have been completed with 27 countries; the agreement with five or six partners will be reached in the next 1.5 -2 weeks, and with all the rest, the agreements will be reached "by the middle of the year, in the second or third quarter."
According to the ministry's spokesman, the decision on Russia's entry into the WTO can be passed at this organization's conference in Hong Kong in December 2005. "However, Russia will become a full-fledged member of the WTO only at the end of the first quarter of 2006," Kushnirenko said. But before that, he added, a number of procedures will have to be carried out.
