BY IANS | UPDATED: APR 18, 2017, 03.45 PM
IST
MOSCOW:
Citizens of India are eligible to visit Russia's far east without visas,
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said.
According to a TASS report, Medvedev said on
Monday tourists and businessmen from 18 nations -- India, the UAE, Algeria,
Bahrain, Brunei, Iran, Qatar, China, North Korea, Kuwait, Morocco, Mexico,
Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tunisia, Turkey and Japan -- can visit the
Russian far east without visas.
"I have approved the list of countries whose nationals
can take advantage of the preferential regime. Businessmen and tourists will
not need to undergo the traditional procedure of Russian visas receipt,"
the Prime Minister said.
It will be enough for foreigners "to enter
their data on a special website in the internet," Medvedev said.
"We are proactively forming the modern
infrastructure and creating special regimes in the Far East. The law on visits
to the Vladivostok . free
port was approved in March," Medvedev said.
Cancellation of visa procedures for tourists and
businessmen "will promote growth of investment and tourist attractiveness
of the far east," he said.
The
region will earn more money from tourist traffic growth, the Prime Minister
added.
Eighteen countries from various regions selected
by the reciprocity principle were included into the list, Medvedev said.
"This is not because these states are
situated at a closer or longer distance -- we are appropriately introducing
bilateral agreements on visa-free travel for those ready to use such an
approach for us," he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
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