KIEV, September 27 (RIA Novosti, Taras Burnos) - Ukraine cannot join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005, the country's acting economic minister said Tuesday.
Sergei Terekhin said, "We have pessimistic forecasts regarding Ukraine's accession to the WTO this year."
"The Supreme Rada [parliament] has already ratified many of the necessary laws, but some of them, namely agricultural veterinary laws, are still under consideration," he added.
"Our agricultural lobby always uses the situation to their advantage when they have to block these or those profile laws," he said.
Terekhin supports Ukraine joining the WTO as soon as possible.
