European Parliament backed under an EU-Armenia visa facilitation agreement.

“Armenian citizens will face fewer hurdles to travel to the EU for short stays, under an EU-Armenia visa facilitation agreement backed by the European Parliament on Wednesday. MEPs also gave their green light to an EU-Armenia agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorization,” says the statement issued on the parliament’s website. 

The EU-Armenia visa facilitation agreement aims to facilitate the issue of short-stay visas for an intended stay of no more than 90 days per period of 180 days.

”The simplified visa regime can bring a new impetus to cooperation, mainly to mobility of citizens, which is essential in building people-to-people contacts,” says rapporteur Edit Bauer.

He added that to balance the visa facilitation agreement, effective measures are also needed to prevent and control illegal migration flows.

The agreements will enter into force on the first day of the second month after the last party to ratify them notifies the other that it has done so.