The European Union does not support the initiative by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to issue non-biometric (old-type) passports to the residents of the occupied Crimea and the separatist-held areas of Donbas, Head of EU Delegation in Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli said at an opening of a caricature exhibit in Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko City Park, titled “Ukraine’s path toward visa liberalization.”
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UNIAN: EU opposes Poroshenko’s idea to issue non-biometric passports to residents of occupied areas
People hold Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags during the rally to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Ukrainian poet and national icon Taras Shevchenko in the Crimean city of Simferopol on March 9, 2014.
