Ukraine, Turkey sign agreement on visa-free regime

23-12-2011 15:09 Ukraine, Turkey sign agreement on visa-free regime

Ukraine and Turkey signed an agreement on the visa-free regime of citizens’ trips. The signature of the document took place in Ankara in the presence of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“The agreement should introduce a visa-free regime for entrance, leaving, transit and stay of citizens of one party on the territory of other party state, based on valid travel documents, pointed out in the addendum to the present agreement, under condition that the term of their continuous stay does not exceed 30 days since the entrance date. At the same time, total term of their stay on the territory of other party should not exceed 90 days over each period of 180 days,” the statement of the Presidential press service informs. Yanukovych and Erdogan also signed a Joint Statement by results of holding the first meeting of the high level Strategic Council between Ukraine and Turkey. The document proves the countries’ striving to build relations of strategic partnership. A special attention was paid to strengthening of such priority trends of cooperation as power engineering, transport and modernization of the infrastructure. In addition, agreements were signed between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the government of the Turkish Republic on air communication, on cooperation in the sphere of quarantine and plant protection, on cooperation in the sphere of fishery, economic and financial cooperation, as well as an Action Plan for development of bilateral relations between the countries for 2012-2013, as well as the Program of Cooperation in the sphere of culture for 2012-2014.

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