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Visas abolishment plant to be presented in Belgrade

Belgrade, 5 May 2008

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic voiced belief that after the visit to Belgrade by Vice President of the European Commission Jacques Barrot, who is to arrive this week, Serbia will fulfil all conditions so that its citizens can get free visas as soon as possible.

In a statement to the Tanjug news agency, Djelic announced that Barrot is arriving in Belgrade on Wednesday, May 7, when the plan to abolish visas for Serbian citizens will be presented.

He explained that this is an initiative by a number of Schengen countries who support Serbia’s demand of several months ago, when it asked that visas be issued to its citizens for free before the summer, and that they are abolished by the year’s end.

The EU has not yet made the decision, but it is important that there is an initiative which will act as an additional incentive for other Schengen countries and countries of the European Commission when the change occurs, said Djelic.

According to him, the initiative does not yet mean that fees for issuing visas will be abolished, but it is a strong initiative and will hopefully lead to that.

Thanks to our strong lobbying in the past several months and weeks, we can see that we have achieved results in this field, said Djelic and recalled that 204 new biometric passports were delivered on May 3, which is very important for the efforts to abolish visas.