Poland will support a draft agreement on abolishing the visa requirement between Russia and the EU, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

Russia submitted a draft agreement on scrapping visa requirements to the European Union at the Russia-EU summit in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on May 31.

"We hope for a quick and positive response from Brussels. The Polish side has confirmed that it will support this draft," Lavrov said after talks with his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski.

The introduction of visa-free travel with the EU has become a major foreign-policy goal in Moscow's relations with Brussels. Lavrov said on Wednesday the mutual scrapping of visa requirements between Russia and the EU would have a "transformative" effect on the entire European and Euro-Atlantic political relationship.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that "the majority of our partners in Europe support this idea," but several EU states reject it, mainly for political reasons.

In July, President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the adoption of a visa-free regime between Russia and the EU with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Berlusconi said there was certain resistance to a visa-free regime, especially from some Eastern European countries.

WARSAW, September 2 (RIA Novosti)