OREANDA-NEWS. October 10, 2008. Belarus is ready to join the negotiations on the reduction of Schengen visa costs for Belarusian citizens, Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Valery Voronetsky told reporters on October 10.

“We are ready to advance in this issue as much as the European Union is,” the Deputy Minister said.

The Foreign Ministry is active in making the issue of the visa cost reduction be settled. “Such high prices are quite unfair for the Belarusian citizens,” Valery Voronetsky said.

In his words, half a year or a year is a real term to address the problem.

Valery Voronetsky is confident that the issue related to the reduction of the cost of Schengen visas for Belarusians will be discussed at a session of the Council of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union in Luxemburg on October 13. Foreign Minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov is supposed to take part in the session.