BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

09/07/2010

European Union to simplify entry rules for Belarusians

Interfax-Ukraine

The European Commission has been ordered to draft an agreement to loosen entry visa rules for Belarus citizens and will give consideration to the draft accord in September or October, the European commissioner for enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, Stefan Fule, said on Friday.

Fule, who was speaking to reporters in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, said the visa liberalization plan reflected significance attached by the EU to contacts between Belarusians and citizens of EU countries.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov said the EU's work of loosening the visa regulations for Belarusians "is going more slowly than one would have liked it to but we are moving along that path."

"I consider the current situation, where Belarusian citizens are discriminated against, to be unacceptable," he said.

Source:

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/72897/


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