Posted: 20.08.2024 16:47:00

State Border Committee: German citizens visited Belarus more often than others since introduction of extended visa-free regime

About 900 foreigners from 35 European countries that are on the extended visa-free regime list visited Belarus over the past week, and the number reached 2,650 since July 19th, 2024, sb.by reports with reference to the State Border Committee

The new entry procedure was most popular among citizens of Germany and Estonia: 38 and 21 percent of the total number of arrivals, respectively.

“Since the beginning of the year, 140,268 residents of neighbouring EU countries have used the visa-free opportunity: 52,657 Latvians, 58,454 Lithuanians, and 29,157 Poles. In total, 943,524 foreigners have visited Belarus since April 15th, 2022,” the source reported.