Moscow - Russia secured a deal with the EU on Friday on terms for its entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) - and immediately rewarded the bloc by promising to back a worldwide environmental pact.
Both sides acknowledged making concessions to clinch a deal to boost President Vladimir Putin's goal of agreeing to entry terms by the end of 2004.
That would crown six years of talks to make Russia the WTO's 148th member - the last big economy to join.
EU trade commissioner Pascal Lamy and Russian trade minister German Gref signed the accord in the Kremlin and Putin immediately said Russia would back the Kyoto protocol on global warming, support eagerly awaited by his EU partners. "We are for the Kyoto process and we support it," Putin said.
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