Armenia signed agreements on mutual recognition of visas with 10 EU countries in 2010

January 12, 2011 - 16:36 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Arthur Baghdasaryan, Secretary of the RA National Security Council, head of the intedepartmental committee on coordination of Armenia’s state bodies cooperation with the European institutions, said that Armenia signed agreements on mutual recognition of visas with 10 EU countries in 2010 – Cyprus, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and France.

Works on visa regime relaxation with the EU countries will be continued in 2011, Baghdasaryan told a press conference in Yerevan.

He noted that Armenia fulfilled 80 out of 197 priority measures of the European Neighborhood Policy. According to him, works on expanding the contractual basis between Armenia and the EU are still under way.

Armenia has already signed agreements on income and property double taxation avoidance and tax evasion prevention with 17 out of 27 EU member states.

Besides, Armenia negotiates with Sweden and Slovakia in this field.