Moscow presses for repatriation of fans arrested in Poland
MOSCOW. June 22 (Interfax) - A Russian deputy foreign minister insisted on Friday on "the earliest possible repatriation" from Poland of all Russian soccer fans who were arrested during recent clashes with Polish counterparts, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
At a meeting in Moscow with Polish Vice Foreign Minister Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, Vladimir Titov "stressed the need for the solution of all the problems for the earliest possible repatriation of the Russian fans who were detained in Poland in the course of the well-known incidents during the European football championship," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry was referring to the current UEFA European Football Championship or Euro 2012.
"The two sides expressed satisfaction with the completion in both countries of the ratification procedures for a Russian-Polish intergovernmental agreement on regulations for local border area movements that was signed in Moscow on December 14, 2011, and that extends the easy-term brief visits regime to the territory of the region of Kaliningrad and bordering regions in Poland," the statement said.
Titov and Pelczynska-Nalecz "agreed rules on further legal procedures that are needed for the document to enter into force late in July this year," it said.