EU ‘to Grant Visa-Free Travel by 2017’
Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 11:35
European Union diplomats expect Ukraine and Georgia to be granted visa-free travel in the Schengen Zone by January 1, 2017, according to Rikard Jozwiak, correspondent of Radio Liberty Brussels.
EU diplomats still expect a final decision in EP/Council on visa lib for #Georgia & #Ukraine in Oct with visa free travel on 1 Jan 2017
— Rikard Jozwiak (@RikardJozwiak) August 23, 2016
President Petro Poroshenko said earlier that he was sure the EU would grant visa-free travel to Ukrainian citizens in the nearest weeks.
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In late July, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said that the EU was getting ready to adopt a resolution on visa-free travel for Ukrainians in early autumn.
Source: European Pravda
