List of those prohibited from leaving Belarus is ready
12:23, — society
The authorities assure the “parliament” will manage to abolish the permission stamp before the end of the current parliamentary session, but officials don’t know whether the money paid for the stamp will be returned.
A month ago Belarus’ Home Ministry claimed there was 50 percent of probability that the stamp would be abolished on 1 January 2008, and passport office authorities recommended to prolong the stamp for one more year. Today assistant head of the citizenship and migration department of the Home Ministry Aliaksiei Biagun says there’ll be no permission stamp next year, Euroradio reports.
As Aliaksiei Biagun said, the list of the citizens who are prohibited from leaving the country is ready. “It was elaborated in the Home Ministry, but a corresponding decree is needed to use it at the customs,” the official said.
A corresponding decree is also ready. But the amendments to the law “On the order of entering and leaving the Republic of Belarus” must be considered first by the “parliament”; a resolution has already been worked out.
But there is hardly more than a month left before the end of the current parliamentary session. Will the Belarusian “legislators” manage to adopt the amendments within this session?
According to Aliaksiei Biagun, it will not take much time and the law is to be adopted.
At the same time, customs officers report they will prepare everything which they were ordered to do by December 31.
Nevertheless, visa institution authorities cannot give any guarantees that the money paid by those who had no faith in official promises and prolonged the stamp for 1-2 years will be returned.
