In spite of sharp deterioration of the human rights situation in the country in the aftermath of the presidential election, the EU organs continued internal procedures and, finally, in June 2011, the European Commission sent Belarus an invitation to start negotiations on visa facilitation and readmission. [...] When would the agreement be signed and would will it change On the one hand, based on the functioning agreements with the other five EaP countries, drawing up the texts of the visa facilitation and readmission agreements (they go in one package) between Belarus and the EU shall not take much time. [...] On the other hand, as http://belinstitute.eu/en/node/1113 BB #16/2013EN www.belinstitute.eu 3 the experience of the other EaP countries shows, it took at least nine months from the beginning of the negotiations to actual signing of the agreements. [...] In fact, the visa facilitation agreements do not bring significant facilitation of the visa regime with the EU, in spite of the agreements' name. [...] In 2008 popular Ukrainian daily Korrespondent awarded the visa facilitation agreement with the title Disappointment of the Year, which demonstrated that the agreement came short of expectations of the Ukrainian population.

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