Zakharova called shame the US refusal to issue visas to Russian delegates
The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in solidarity with the head of Russian foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, who called shame the US refusal to grant visas part of the Russian delegation to attend the UN General Assembly.
first of Zakharova said that certain members of the Russian delegation did not receive visas to attend the high level week of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, which runs from 24 to 30 September in new York. Links that position from the non-issuance of visas is technical in nature, she called " untenable ". Only the visa is not received ten members of the delegation, And among them the head of the international Department of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev and head of the state Duma on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky.
On Tuesday authorized the state Department said Last news that North America takes seriously its obligations During the contract with the UN.
Zakharov reminded that the American delegation headed by Mike Pompeo for his visit to Sochi had been issued 200 visas. In her expressions, this is an example of a " serious attitude to their obligations ".
"But first take a passport, then give it back with the explanation" too early ", then re-assemble and in the end not to issue about ten visas without any coherent reason people, whose functional duties are related specifically to the work of the UN is, as stated by Sergei Lavrov, the shame. And not what is not " serious relationship ", - Zakharov wrote on his page on Facebook.
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