“This project is completed. He simply requires his signature, ”Interfax quotes his words.

He noted that a political decision is required for the final resolution of this issue.

“Technically, we did everything, now we are waiting for a political decision,” he said.

Rapota noted that the document is currently being approved by the Belarusian side.

In May, Aleksey Begun, the head of the Department of Citizenship and Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, announced that an intergovernmental agreement between Belarus and Russia on the mutual recognition of visas could be signed by the end of 2019 and will be operational from the beginning of 2020.