(gazeta.kz) - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, has signed a law "On ratification of a Protocol to the Agreement between the Governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan on Visa-Free Travels of Citizens as of 30 November, 2000," today, November 27, Kazakhstan Today reports citing the presidential press service, reports Trend.
A conclusion by the Mazhilis Committee for International Affairs, Defence, and Security explained that "as per the terms of the protocol, if a visa-free regime of the EurAsEC member states is maintained a common list of documents for travels of citizens of the abovementioned states on the territory of the Community is introduced."
The ID and citizenship documents include passports, foreign passports, office and diplomatic passports, sailor's passports (sailor's national IDs) and certificate of returning to the country of proper citizenship (if a document is lost abroad).
The Protocol is an integral part of the Agreement between the Governments of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan on Visa-Free Travels of Citizens ratified on 6 December, 2001.
The Protocol to the Agreement was signed on 24 March, 2005, in Astana at a meeting of the EurAsEC Interstate Council.