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THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY,

of the one part, and

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of the other part,

hereinafter referred to as ‘the Parties’,

DESIRING to promote, with a view to permanent cooperation and in conditions providing for predictability of trade, the mutual expansion and orderly and equitable development of trade in textile products between the European Community (hereinafter ‘the Community’) and the Russian Federation (hereafter ‘Russia’),

RESOLVED to take the fullest possible account of the serious economic and social problems at present affecting the textile industry in both the Community and Russia,

HAVING REGARD to the objectives and provisions of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement’) which entered into force on 1 December 1997,

BEARING IN MIND Russia's process of accession to the Word Trade Organisation (WTO),

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: