{"id":46595,"date":"2022-09-09T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/poland-baltic-countries-agree-to-restrict-entry-of-russians\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:04:54","slug":"poland-baltic-countries-agree-to-restrict-entry-of-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/poland-baltic-countries-agree-to-restrict-entry-of-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland, Baltic countries agree to restrict entry of Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of visas had been issued to Russian citizens before the Russia-Ukraine conflict and &#8220;under different geopolitical conditions and considerations,&#8221; said the release, adding that the influx of Russian citizens to the EU and the Schengen area through their countries&#8217; borders, however, poses &#8220;a serious threat&#8221; to their &#8220;public security and to the overall shared Schengen area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agreed &#8220;national temporary measures&#8221; are not &#8220;an outright entry ban&#8221; to Russian nationals, the statement said, adding that the restrictions should enter into force in each country by Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The four prime ministers said that they welcome the suspension of the EU visa facilitation agreement with Russia, and called for further measures to &#8220;drastically limit the number of visas issued (primarily tourist visas)&#8221; and to decrease the flow of Russian citizens into the EU and the Schengen area.<\/p>\n<p>During their informal meeting in Prague on Aug. 30-31, EU foreign ministers agreed to suspend the visa facilitation agreement that allows simplified procedures for the issuance of visas to Russian citizens. The decision, however, has yet to be legalized.<\/p>\n<p>Russia responded on Sunday that it will take serious retaliatory measures if the EU formally introduces visa restrictions on Russian citizens.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44092 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/asd-3.jpg\" alt=\"Poland and Baltic countries have agreed to restrict the entry of Russians. Photo by Eurasiareview\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{WARSAW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) &#8212; Prime ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have issued a joint statement, agreeing to temporarily restrict Russian visa-holders&#8217; entry into the European Union (EU) and the Schengen area for tourism, culture, sport and business purposes, according to a release from the Polish Prime Minister&#8217;s Office on Thursday.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46595"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46595"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}