Lavrov: Russia is ready for visa-free travel with EU
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is convinced that Issues related to visa-free travel regime between Russia and the European Union will be settled shortly.
This week Sergey Lavrov met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Moscow.
The idea of visa-free travel between Russian and the EU has broad support amongst the member countries. Fernando Valenzuela, head of the European Commission in Moscow, has said that the visa regime between the Russia and EU can be simplified as early as the coming first half-year, as BarentsObserver reported.
After his meeting with the EU representative, Mr. Lavrov told Russian media that it soon I time to be talking about “concrete schedules” for introduction of a visa-free travel regime with Europe:
-Our side raised the issue of the need to specify the main objective in the bilateral relations – the introduction of a visa-free regime, the minister said according to newspaper Vzglyad. - We hope that the consultations between our experts will be successful and the issues of visa-free regime will be settled shortly, he added.
-Russia is ready to transfer to a visa-free regime even tomorrow, he noted.
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