Russia Visa Free Entry: The friendship between India and Russia is famous all over the world. Whenever there has been a crisis, both the countries have helped each other. Now a new chapter is going to be added to this friendship. Both the countries are working on an action plan to provide visa free tourist entry to their people. It is hoped that it can be implemented in 2024.
According to a Russian minister, negotiations on a bilateral agreement to facilitate travel between Russia and India will begin next month i.e. in June. The Russian minister also said Moscow and New Delhi are seriously working on a plan to send visa-free tourist groups to each other’s country and boost tourism ties, an RT News report said.
RT News quoted Nikita Kondratyev, Director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, as saying that coordination work between interior ministries in India is in the final stages. On the sidelines of the “Russia – Islamic World: KazanForum 2024” international economic forum in Kazan, the Russian minister announced that the draft agreement will be discussed between Moscow and New Delhi for the first time in June and is likely to be signed by the end of 2024. Is.
The minister said, “Russia and India are ready to strengthen their tourism relations. Both countries are ready to start exchange of visa free tourist groups. “The first round of talks between the two countries is scheduled for June, with the aim of finalizing a bilateral agreement by the end of this year.”
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Kondratyev said Russia also wants to continue the achievements of existing visa-free entry and free travel agreements with China and Iran. Let us tell you that on August 1, 2016, Russia and China started the Group Tourist Entry Program without visa, which is continuing till now. According to Kondratyev, on the same day Russia and Iran also launched the visa-free group tourist entry program. Russia now wants to take it forward with India.