By his Decree, the President of the Republic of Belarus has decided to adopt the Protocol signed in Astana on March 24, 2005 to the Agreement of November 30, 2000 between the governments of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan on mutual visa-free travels of citizens.

In order to simplify the conditions for mutual visa-free travels of citizens of the Eurasian Economic Community member states, the Protocol introduces reduced and unified lists of the documents which prove the identity and nationality of their owners and entitle them to enter, to leave, to transit, to move across the territory of the EurAsEC countries and to stay on their territory.