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Estonia to Grant Ukraine Visa-Free Travel During EU Foreign Affairs Council

© REUTERS / Martti Kainulainen/LehtikuvaEstonia's Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand (L) listens while her Finnish counterpart Timo Soini speaks during their joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on September 23, 2015
Estonia's Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand (L) listens while her Finnish counterpart Timo Soini speaks during their joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, on September 23, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Estonian Foreign Minister said Thursday that the question of visa-free regime between Ukraine and Europe's Schengen zone will be raised soon.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Estonian Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand said Thursday that she would raise a question of visa-free regime between Ukraine and Europe's Schengen zone during the June 20 meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

"Ukraine, from its side, has fulfilled all the requirements, so the European Union has to keep its promise. If the EU promised to grant a visa-free regime to Ukraine and Georgia, and all the technical requirements were observed, the visa-free regime has to be granted to these countries as soon as possible. This is our position and I will raise the question on the next EU Foreign Affairs Council," she said at a press conference in Tallinn.

On Thursday, Kaljurand discussed the issue with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin who arrived in Estonia with an official visit.

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In December 2015, the European Commission gave a positive assessment of Ukraine successfully meeting all benchmark requirements necessary for the liberalization of the visa regime with the Schengen zone.

In April, the Commission made a proposal to the European Council and the European Parliament to add Ukraine to the list of countries the citizens of which could travel to the Schengen Area without visas. No decisions on the issue have been made by any of the EU bodies so far.

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