Visa-free travel between Russia and Serbia agreed
Published: 20 February, 2009, 21:24
TAGS: Meeting, Russia, Politics, Europe
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic have signed a bilateral agreement for visa-free travel for the citizens of their respective countries.
This agreement, which was signed in Moscow on Friday, will give Russians and Serbs the right to travel to each others' countries without the need of a visa for up to 30 days. The agreement will take several months to come into force.
Presently, three Balkan countries, Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia, have visa-free regimes with Russia.
The foreign ministers of Russia and Serbia promised to expedite the necessary procedures for the agreement to be ratified as soon as possible.
Since last March, Serbia has granted visa-free travel to Russians entering their territory.
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February 23, 2009, 11:58, acane wrote > I can't beleive this was not done earlier. This is very good for both countries. Yes, you are right, however, visas were never an issue between these two countries. During and after the last war in Serbia a lot of people migrated to Russia or started developing their business with Russia. I never heard of any issues around visas. According to an article the reason there was a visa requirement was the Albanian minority in Serbia. Russian governmant basically didn't want them to travel freely through their country with a Serbian/Yugoslawian passport as they did accross Western Europe. Now since they are "independant" ""state"" Serbia is no more obliged to issue them passports. Can somebody confirm this?
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