Visa talks with Russia break down again

  • 2003-04-03
  • Steven Paulikas
VILNIUSThe recently re-opened negotiations over the transit of Russian citizens to and from the Kaliningrad exclave have reached an impasse, casting doubt as to the final shape the facilitated travel agreement agreed upon in Brussels will take.The latest confrontation begain in mid-March when Russian officials claimed that Lithuania was acting in violation of the November 2002 accord between the EU and Russia regarding the introduction of new travel restrictions for Russians passing through Lithuanian territory on their way to Kaliningrad. Talks were promptly restarted in Brussels in an ef...
 
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