AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS AND GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of May 29, 2018

About some questions connected with entrance of foreign citizens and stateless persons on the international sporting events

The government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Russian Federation which further are referred to as with the Parties

stating availability of high level of the interstate relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation,

wishing to settle procedure for entrance of the foreign citizens and stateless persons following for visit of the FIFA World Cup of FIFA of 2018 and the II European games of 2019

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the following concepts are used:

a) "foreign citizen" – person having other nationality, than nationality of the Republic of Belarus or the Russian Federation;

b) "stateless person" – the person who does not have nationality of the Republic of Belarus or the Russian Federation and not having the evidence of belonging to nationality of the third state;

c) "border" – frontier of the state of the Party;

d) "check point" – the check point through frontier of one of the states of the Parties, open for the international message;

e) "identity document" – the document recognized according to the legislation of the states of both Parties and international treaties of the states of both Parties as the identity document of the foreign citizen or the stateless person;

e) "the international sporting event" – the FIFA World Cup of FIFA of 2018 or the II European games of 2019;

g) "the entry visa, departure and stay" – issued in the procedure established by the legislation of the state of one of the Parties the visa, permission to temporary residence, the residence permit or the document to visit of the international sporting event granting the right of entrance, departure and stay in the territory of the state of this Party and allowing to identify its owner according to the procedure determined by the legislation of the state of this Party;

h) "the document for visit of the international sporting event" – issued in established by the legislation of the state of the Party holding the international sporting event, procedure the document (data on the document) for holding the international sporting event and granting the right of entrance, departure and stay in the territory of the state of the Party holding the international sporting event.

Article 2

1. The foreign citizens and stateless persons following for visit of the international sporting event during its carrying out in the state of one Party drive, leave, stay and follow en route through the territory of the state of other Party without execution of visas under the valid identity document, and the document to visit of the international sporting event.

2. The foreign citizens and persons without citizenship who are the transport drivers performing motor transportations of persons specified in Item 1 of this Article drive on the territory of each of the states of the Parties and departure and stay or without that leave from this territory under the valid identity document, and the entry visa, if for the specified drivers according to international treaties of the states of both Parties the mode of visa-free entrance, stay, transit and departure is provided.

3. The period of entrance, departure and stay of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the territory of the states of the Parties within this agreement is determined according to the legislation of the state of the Party holding the international sporting event on which specified persons follow.

Article 3

The foreign citizens and stateless persons specified in Article 2 of this agreement drive on the territory of each of the states of the Parties and leave from this territory:

a) through check points;

b) directly from the territory of the state of other Party on the used ways of the international automobile and railway messages listed in the appendices 1 and 2 to this agreement which are its integral part.

Article 4

Competent authorities of the state of one Party the marks about crossing of border which are put down by competent authorities of the state of other Party for the purpose of control of terms of stay of the foreign citizens and stateless persons making trips within this agreement mutually are recognized.

Article 5

Competent authorities of the states of the Parties exchange samples of documents for visit of the international sporting event not later than 60 days before date of its beginning.

Article 6

1. Within this agreement of the Party perform cooperation for the purpose of:

safety of the international sporting events, audience and participants of such actions;

prevention of threat of homeland and public security of the State Parties of the Agreement on creation of the Union State of December 8, 1999.

2. The parties perform cooperation by the direction one Party to other Party of the following data containing in the document for visit of the international sporting event, or data on issue of such document to the foreign citizen or the person without citizenship:

a) for visit of the FIFA World Cup of FIFA of 2018:

number of the register entry about such document in information system of the Party;

birth date;

nationality;

status of such document;

b) for visit of the II European games of 2019 – according to the procedure and amount, established under approval between the Parties through diplomatic channels.

3. The parties take organizational and technical measures for protection of the transferred data against illegal or accidental access, destruction, change, blocking,

copyings, provisions, distribution, and also from other wrongful acts.

The parties provide confidentiality of information obtained based on this agreement.

Information transferred within this agreement cannot be used for the purpose of, other than the purposes specified in Item 1 of this Article.

Requirements to information security shall be conformed to the legislation of each of the states of the Parties, the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Russian Federation on cooperation in the field of information security of July 9, 1997 and to other international treaties of the states of the Parties.

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