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A stand on visa liberalization on December 19 reached |
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November 04, 2009  The EU Council of Ministers have agreed visa liberalization for Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian citizens should take effect as early as on December 19 and not on January 1, 2010, as it was previously envisaged, BETA learns, quoting a source from the Council. That was a unanimous stand of the EU ambassadors in the COREPER committee and it should be confirmed at a European Parlaiment sitting on November 11 and subsequently, by the end of November, at a meeting of EU foreign or interior ministers. COREPER sources added the stand had been adopted at Slovenia’s initiative. The Slovenian Foreign Ministry previously announced that the day before, at a session of the Council’s working group for visas, Slovenia proposed visa liberalization for Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian citizens should take effect as early as on December 19.
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