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The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has confirmed the forecasts that the visa-free regime between the European Union and Ukraine will come into effect by summer.

“Starting from 28.03.17, citizens of Georgia will travel to EU countries without visas, and by the summer so will Ukrainians,” the Consular Service Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.

As reported, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli expressed the hope that a visa-free regime with the EU for Ukrainian citizens will come into force by July this year.

Ukraine has fulfilled all its obligations to get visa-free regime and we hope that by the end of June visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU will work, Mingarelli said at a briefing in Lviv on March 28.

On March 9, the Committee of the European Parliament on Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs (LIBE) approved the draft on the inclusion of Ukraine in the list of third countries visa requirements for whose citizens are canceled.

The completion of the process of liberalization of the visa regime requires several more procedural issues, in particular, consideration and approval of the issue at the plenary session of the European Parliament, scheduled for April 6, and approval by the Council of the European Union.

After that, the document must be signed by the president of the European Parliament and the representative of the country presiding in the EU and published in the official journal of the EU.

The decision to introduce a visa-free regime will come into force 20 days after publication.