VISA FACILITATION AGREEMENTS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND EU INITIALED
Mediamax News Agency
Oct 18 2012
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenia's Ambassador to the EU Avet Adonts and
Secretary General for Home Affairs at the European Commission Stefano
Manservisi initialed the Visa Regime Facilitation and Readmission
Agreements between Armenia and European Union in Brussels today.
The agreement is scheduled to be signed in December 2012 and will
undergo the procedure of ratification in the first half of 2013.
Under the Visa Facilitation Agreement, Armenian citizens will undergo
facilitated procedures for getting visas to Schengen countries.
Facilitation of visa procedures to the EU countries is planned to be
provided to a number of categories of Armenian citizens, particularly
members of official delegations, scientists, students, journalists,
sportsmen and artists, close relatives of people who have legal rights
for living in the EU countries, participants of meetings organized
by structures of the Armenian Diaspora in these states.
The cost of the Schengen visa is also to be decreased to EUR 35 and
made free of charge for a number of categories of citizens including
children and pensioners.
The Readmission Agreement regulates procedures of returning and
accepting people who live on the territory of EU and Armenia illegally.
The talks on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements with the
EU launched in Yerevan in February 2012.
Mediamax News Agency
Oct 18 2012
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenia's Ambassador to the EU Avet Adonts and
Secretary General for Home Affairs at the European Commission Stefano
Manservisi initialed the Visa Regime Facilitation and Readmission
Agreements between Armenia and European Union in Brussels today.
The agreement is scheduled to be signed in December 2012 and will
undergo the procedure of ratification in the first half of 2013.
Under the Visa Facilitation Agreement, Armenian citizens will undergo
facilitated procedures for getting visas to Schengen countries.
Facilitation of visa procedures to the EU countries is planned to be
provided to a number of categories of Armenian citizens, particularly
members of official delegations, scientists, students, journalists,
sportsmen and artists, close relatives of people who have legal rights
for living in the EU countries, participants of meetings organized
by structures of the Armenian Diaspora in these states.
The cost of the Schengen visa is also to be decreased to EUR 35 and
made free of charge for a number of categories of citizens including
children and pensioners.
The Readmission Agreement regulates procedures of returning and
accepting people who live on the territory of EU and Armenia illegally.
The talks on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements with the
EU launched in Yerevan in February 2012.