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Cabinet approves India-Egypt accord on visa
New
Delhi,
Jan
17:
The
Cabinet
today
gave
its
approval
to
signing
of
an
agreement
between
India
and
Egypt
on
the
abolition
of
visa
requirement
for
diplomatic
and
official
passport
holders.
Briefing reporters after a Cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister P R Dasmunsi said the agreement would also allow a citizen of a country to stay in the other country for a maximum period of 90 days without a visa. Mr Dasmunsi said the agreement would facilitate visa-free travel between India and Egypt for diplomatic and official passport holders while entering, transiting through and exiting from the two countries.
He said it would also facilitate in issuing of residence visa, valid for the duration of the assignment, to members of diplomatic or consular missions.
India has already entered into similar agreements with 35 other countries.
UNI
