Brexit minister eyes quick pact on EU citizens' rights in Britain

Britain looks to have a quick agreement with the European Uion on EU citizens' rights in Britain and vice versa, Brexit minister said here Monday.

"I see no reason why we couldn't get a very, very fast answer to that question -- an answer which is generous to EU citizens in Britain and generous to British citizens in the European Union," said David Davis, the British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

Davis arrived in Estonia on the first leg of his Baltic tour, with his next visits scheduled to Latvia and Lithuania.

He also said that Britain wanted the European Union to be strong also after his country's departure from the bloc.

Britain would not pursue a policy that would contravene its national interests, Davis specified that these interests included foreign students enrolling at British universities, financiers doing business in the City of London and highly-skilled labor like programmers from foreign countries coming to work in Britain.

As for low-skilled guest worker's job prospects, he said it would take "years and years before we get British citizens to do those jobs and so that [the employment of guest workers] will continue too".

"Wherever we go, we get the response that we want a constructive negotiation and a constructive future," Davis said about the ongoing preparations for the upcoming Brexit talks. Endit