European partners froze the theme of simplifying the visa regime with Russia long before the Ukrainian events, said in an interview Last news Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexey Meshkov.
" in fact, our European partners such information froze long before the Ukrainian events. For a long time everything was ready, but we quite openly hinted that as long as the visa-free regime will not receive the So-called Eastern partnership, rely on the fact that such a regime will be introduced in relations with Russia, unreal, " He said.
According to Meshkov, " all the time to invent something fresh and fresh excuses to not start real negotiations." As you remember, was developed a programme of common steps towards visa-free regime, this program was fully implemented. So the conclusion about the freezing of visa-free regime was purely political in nature, because had nothing left to say ", said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
He drew attention to the fact that it was necessary either to switch to visa-free regime, or to abandon this ", however, " European partners chose the second path.
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