MOSCOW: Moscow has begun to issue Russian passports to residents in Crimea as the peninsula has signed an accession treaty with Russia, head of Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) said on Wednesday.

"The treaty was signed yesterday. Its temporary application started yesterday and, of course, all Crimean residents who applied to the Federal Migration Service will get passports. This work has started. Some of the passports were issued today," Konstantin Romodanovsky was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

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