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NIS - The Serbian government decided on Sunday to propose to China a mutual scrapping of visas.

At a government session held in Nis late Sunday, FM Ivica Dacic and Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang agreed it was a historic day for Serbia and China.

Turkey will cease to limit the access of migrants to the borders of the EU if Turkish citizens are not granted the right to travel visa-free in the EU by the end of the year, threatened again the Turkish Minister for European Union Affairs Ömer Çelik.

If the deal signed with the EU on visa-free travel for Turkish citizens is not realized by the end of this year it will be "naturally dead," Turkish EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik has stated.

Bulgaria will want guarantees for the abolition of Canadian visas in order to support the free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada, announced the government's press centre.

This position will be defended at the two-day meeting of the leaders of the EU which begins on Thursday.

The European Union should implement visa-free travel for Turks by the end of the year and stop insisting Turkey change its anti-terrorism laws or Ankara may cancel its side of a deal to readmit illegal migrants, Turkey's EU minister told Reuters.

NIS - The Serbian government decided on Sunday to propose to China a mutual scrapping of visas. At a government session held in Nis late Sunday, FM Ivica Dacic and Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang agreed it was a historic day for Serbia and China.

There is no chance of Turkey being granted visa-free access to the EU before the end of the month, but liberalization could come when the present storm in the country calms down, according to an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief. Turks might be able to travel by early 2017, Nathalie Tocci says.

The European Commission has not confirmed that there is a stage-by-stage schedule for the abolition of Canadian visas for Bulgarians and Romanians as of May 1, 2017.

The member-states of the EU reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday to give Georgians the opportunity for visa-free travel but postponed the implementation of the programme until stronger guarantees against a sudden migrant influx are negotiated, reported Reuters.

Alternate Foreign Minister Nikos Xydakis is promoting the speedier issue of visas by Greek consular services in the 10 most important markets for Greek tourism where such paperwork is required.

This follows the improvement in the time taken for visas to be issued this year in Russia, with the use of biometric data.