Russia has withdrawn from the two major organizations, and the United States is pressing hard. Why should Russia "isolate itself"?

Peter Tolstoy, vice chairman of the Russian State Duma, said that Russia is planning to discuss the possibility of withdrawing from the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, and the proposal to suspend the membership of these two international organizations has been submitted to the parliament.

Since Russia unilaterally launched the "June Special Action" against Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed several rounds of economic sanctions on Russia, and some international organizations have also accused Russia of launching the "June Special Action". Russia believes that it has not been treated fairly in many international organizations. These international organizations have blackmailed and suppressed Russia, so they have successively started the procedures of withdrawing from some international organizations.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement announcing the start of the procedure of withdrawing from Council of Europe, on the grounds that Russia believed that NATO and EU countries had maliciously used their majority seats in Council of Europe, turned the organization into an anti-Russian tool and refused to talk on an equal footing. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on its website, saying that Russia decided to withdraw from the United Nations World Tourism Organization. According to the relevant rules of the World Tourism Organization, the withdrawal procedure will last for one year. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia will withdraw from the Council of Baltic States. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the organization is becoming an anti-Russian tool, and Russia's presence in it is "out of date" and will be "counterproductive".

However, the above-mentioned international organizations cannot be compared with the WTO and WHO in terms of scale and influence. Russia needs to be cautious when it withdraws from the WTO and WHO.

WTO, also known as "Economic United Nations", has a huge and sophisticated normative system, covering many fields such as tariff level, trade remedy, dispute settlement and trade facilitation. To provide all-round institutional guarantee for member States. The basic economic and trade order of contemporary international society established by WTO has been repeatedly practiced by more than 60 members of/kloc-0. At present, there is no multilateral framework or organization that can replace WTO, and the absolute core position of WTO in global economic and trade governance is beyond doubt.

In fact, once Russia withdraws from the WTO, it will lose the "most favored nation treatment" granted by all its existing members, and it will not be able to obtain all the rights granted by the WTO not to be illegally infringed, nor will it be able to resolve trade disputes through the WTO dispute settlement procedures. Of course, if Russia really withdraws from the WTO, it can still enjoy trade preferences and convenience to a certain extent according to the bilateral and regional economic and trade agreements it signed. However, Russia's existing bilateral and regional economic and trade agreements are not enough to fully cover the scope of WTO protection, and Russia's trade interests will inevitably be greatly damaged.

WHO is a specialized agency under the United Nations and the largest intergovernmental health organization in the world. For a long time, WHO has played an important role in promoting the prevention and treatment of epidemic and endemic diseases, teaching and training in public health, disease treatment and related affairs, and promoting the determination of international standards for biological products. Under the governance framework of WHO, member countries can obtain international public health resources more easily and gradually improve the level of domestic public health governance. Since the outbreak of coronary pneumonia, WHO, as an intergovernmental international organization, has made outstanding contributions in international prevention and control cooperation, vaccine research and development, production and distribution, and pathological research, from which Russia has also benefited. If Russia unilaterally withdraws from WHO without authorization, it will not only hinder the progress of its public health governance, but also face greater pressure from international public opinion because of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, which indirectly leads to the further reduction of its international discourse power.

Therefore, whether it is withdrawing from WTO or WHO, it will do more harm than good to Russia. The international law governance system and basic international order established after World War II are hard-won. Especially since Trump took office in the United States, big countries have frequently proposed to withdraw from some international organizations and agreements, which has reduced the confidence of the international community in international law to some extent. We call on all countries in the world not to use "quitting the group" as a "political bargaining chip". Dialogue on an equal footing and reasonable control of differences are the fundamental policies for the peaceful settlement of international disputes and even disputes.