9 July 2025

Sergeyenko: 1.15m Europeans have already used Belarus’ visa waiver

Belarus’ visa waiver program has already been used by 1.15 million Europeans. Belarus is open to its neighbors, although they, unfortunately, are reinforcing their borders, Chairman of the House of Representatives Igor Sergeyenko said during his meeting with the staff of the Belinkasgroup company, BelTA has learned.

“Belarus demonstrates its openness to the whole world, including its neighbors. The visa waiver program introduced by the decision of the head of state has already been utilized by over 1.15 million people from more than 30 countries. Almost half of them are from Lithuania. We remain open. However, our neighbors, unfortunately, are reinforcing their borders, including through engineering projects. We clearly see what is happening across our border today, i.e in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine. They are building up military capacities, improving combat skills, conducting exercises, strengthening the potential of the troops, increasing investment in defense of the armed forces. Of course, this prompts us to work on increasing combat readiness and defense capability. These issues were also on our agenda today,” Igor Sergeyenko said.

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