Maria Knyazeva. The non-visa regime for Georgia and Ukraine has the opportunity to be considered later this year, said the head of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite on arrival at the Summit of " Eastern partnership ".

"We hope that for 2 of these States by the end of the current year free visa regime will be considered," she said.

first on Thursday, the European Commissioner for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Johannes Hahn told reporters in Riga that the European Union States may take the final decision on visas for Ukraine in the coming year if the European Commission before the end of this year will represent a positive report about the readiness of these countries to the visa-free regime with the EU.

The summit of "Eastern partnership" held in Riga on 21-22 may. First, the European Commission presented a report on the performance of Kiev and Tbilisi in order to liberalize the visa regime. Review Commission, Ukraine and Georgia have made significant progress towards the abolition of visas, but they still are expected to do for visa liberalisation lot of work in different areas. The EC also stated that Ukraine and Georgia will not be offered a visa-free regime with EU at Riga summit of the Eastern partnership.

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