Almost 295,000 Europeans visit Belarus visa-free

Almost 295,000 Europeans have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. According to the State Border Committee, since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has welcomed 294,714 foreign nationals: 189,927 Lithuanian citizens, 71,014 citizens and 21,842 non-citizens of Latvia and 11,931 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted 5,559 visa-waiver arrivals: 3,624 citizens of Lithuania, 1,230 citizens and 373 non-citizens of Latvia, 332 citizens of Poland, the committee informed.