| 24 November 2008 More and more European parliamentarians support the idea to remove visa barriers for the Belarusians, Arnoldas Pranckevicius, the Administrator of Interparliamentary delegations at the European Parliament. The official underscored that it is necessary to continue the talks regarding the simplification of visa regime between Belarus and the European Union in the light of long-term perspective of Belarus’ joining the European neighborhood policy. “Belarus should develop the relative legislation to expand trade, economic and financial partnership with the European Union. Of course, the Belarusian economic legislation can not be unified with the European standards to the full but we welcome its simplification and liberalization,” Arnoldas Pranckevicius noted. “In some distant future the conclusion of the free trade agreement can be discussed,” he added. The official also said that despite some problems of the political cooperation between Belarus and EU, it is possible to continue cooperation in such vital issues as energy, transport, ecology and customs. “Here we have a serious mutual interest,” the European politician highlighted.
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