KIEV, April 3 – Ukraine will only benefit from the World Trade Organization if Russia and other member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States are also allowed to join, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

"Ukraine is interested in the membership of the WTO of all states of the CIS, Russia in particular, as our friend and partner," Yatseniuk said at a meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg on Thursday.