Russia: Summit with EU will make short-term visas a thing of the past?

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Russia: Summit with EU will make short-term visas a thing of the past?

Russian Federation, Yekatarinburg

June 3, 2013 at 16:52 GMT +00:00 · Published

Russia: Summit with EU will make short-term visas a thing of the past?

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with EU president Herman Van Rumpoy at the Russia Federation - European Union (EU) joint summit, on Monday, in Yekatarinburg.

The summit is set to cover a wide range of issues, with the economic crisis and Syrian crisis taking primacy. Other topics include the situation in the Middle East and North Africa as a whole, Iran's nuclear programme and the state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula.

The principal day will be June 4 where talks focus on a proposal to allow citizens of the EU and Russia to be able to travel between the two political bodies for short trips without a visa.

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Russia: Summit with EU will make short-term visas a thing of the past?

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with EU president Herman Van Rumpoy at the Russia Federation - European Union (EU) joint summit, on Monday, in Yekatarinburg.

The summit is set to cover a wide range of issues, with the economic crisis and Syrian crisis taking primacy. Other topics include the situation in the Middle East and North Africa as a whole, Iran's nuclear programme and the state of affairs on the Korean Peninsula.

The principal day will be June 4 where talks focus on a proposal to allow citizens of the EU and Russia to be able to travel between the two political bodies for short trips without a visa.

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