Uzbek citizens may soon be allowed to visit the European Union

As Euronews reports, the EU is going to open its borders from July 1 to some countries that are not members of the union. The list of such countries is based on the recommendations of the European Commission.

The United States, Brazil, and Russia were not included in the list, due to the large number of people infected with COVID-19.

In addition to Uzbekistan, the list includes Monaco, Montenegro, the Vatican, Andorra, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Albania, Turkey, Kosovo, South Korea, Turkmenistan, Viet Nam, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Japan, Bhutan, Lebanon, India, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Palau, New Zealand, Australia, Dominica, Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Uruguay, Jamaica, Cuba, Guyana, Paraguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Georgia, Angola, Mauritius, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, Zambia.

It is noteworthy that there is a disagreement between nations on the criteria to use for this decision, with some maintaining that data about COVID rates are not reliable. They are asking the ECDC, the EU agency for disease prevention, to come up with more details, adding that the lists will be reviewed every two weeks.