Media: for the issue of biometric passports comers in EU Ukrainians will take more than 2 years
For the issue to citizens of Ukraine of biometric passports, which are a prerequisite for crossing the border with the countries of the Schengen zone in case of introduction of a visa-free regime between Ukraine and EU, it will take almost two and a half years, Ukrainian media reports. according to the State migration service of Ukraine, Usually a month can give 41 550 thousand biometric passports. According to the official data of the European Commission, in 2014 for Schengen visas applied 1, 4 million Ukrainians, writes " New time ". as of June 1, 2015 207 753 thousand Ukrainians received biometric passports. Most biometric passports issued in Kiev - 50 830 thousand. Then go to Odessa region - 21 930 thousand, Lviv oblast - 13 172 thousand and Dnipropetrovsk 12 686 thousand passports. Before the last working day of the week the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has threatened the dismissal of the officials that impede the achievement of visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union. Yesterday Poroshenko said that the Ukrainian staff of the foreign Ministry are required to achieve the introduction of a visa-free regime with the European Union in 2016. As before said the Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma, Georgia and Ukraine have the opportunity to receive a visa-free regime with the EU in 2016, if the European Union will present a positive report on the issue by the end of 2015. Prior to this, the source said that the European Union will be able to note the visa regime with Ukraine only after graduation or complete freeze on its territory of armed conflict. 3 of the six countries participating in the project " Eastern partnership - Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in 2014 signed the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Russian envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov stated before that work on a final Declaration rather tense: some countries want to strengthen anti-Russian orientation, and others that create obstacles.