Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky said the signing of an readmission agreement with Uzbekistan would play a positive role in introducing a visa-free regime on the Russia-EU space, Itar-Tass reported.

"These are interrelated elements," Romodanovsky told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

He stressed that Uzbekistan had become the second CIS country (after Ukraine) that signed the readmission agreement with Russia. "Now we’re preparing the document with Kazakhstan. The agreements with other countries are being worked out," he added.

In his view, the signed documents prove that "there are no white spots in Russian-Uzbek migration cooperation".

Earlier in the day, Russia and Uzbekistan signed the four documents on migration policy and aviation. The governments of the two countries concluded a document on labour migrants and the protection of migrants’ rights – migrants who are Russian citizens in Uzbekistan and migrants who are Uzbek citizens in Russia.

The second agreement is related to cooperation in the fight against illegal migration and the other one – on readmission.