THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND RUSSIA ON THE RULES OF TRAVELLING FOR BORDER TERRITORY RESIDENTS IS ALMOST CONCLUDED
On 27-28 May, in Vilnius, consular consultations of representatives from the Lithuanian and Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs were held. The participants of the consultations discussed and essentially agreed the agreement between the governments of the Republic of Lithuania and the Russian Federation concerning the rules of travelling for the residents of Lithuania and Russia state border territory.
This agreement is drawn up in compliance with the European Union Regulation No.1931/2006, which was adopted at the end of the year 2006. In this regulation, the Member States were allowed to sign bilateral agreements with neighbouring countries, with which they share land borders and, in the following way, to embed the rules on the local border traffic regime at the land borders of the Member States.
The bilateral agreement will set out the rules on the local border traffic regime, which will allow the border territory residents to cross the state border with special local border traffic permits. Such long-term traffic permits will be issued to those border territory residents who have substantiated economic, trading, cultural reasons or have to travel in a border area for education, research, and sport, humanitarian, social or other important reasons.
The countries also agreed that until the last round of negotiations, the remaining issues should be arranged with the competent institutions of their countries and the final meeting in the process of the negotiations should be organised this year in July – August in Moscow.
During the consultations, the Agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of the issuance of visas to the citizens of the European Union and the Russian Federation, which was signed last year, was also discussed, as well as the implementation of this agreement was on the agenda. The representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of both countries agreed to organise joint events to explore the possibilities that this agreement would allow and to encourage the citizens to take them.
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