EU chief diplomat Joseph Borrell opposes calls for blanket visa ban for Russians

DUBAI, 24 August 2022, (TON): EU chief diplomat Joseph Borrell has echoed Washington in its opposition to a blanket ban on visas for Russians ahead of talks between the bloc’s officials next week.

Demands were made by several countries, including Finland, Estonia and the Czech Republic, to Brussels to impose an EU-wide ban on new tourist visas for Russians to enter the Schengen free travel area as punishment for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Borrell made the comments in response to calls by Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had first urged the visa ban in an interview earlier this month with the Washington Post, saying Russians should live in their own world until they change their philosophy.

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