“Today, as you know, an ugly situation occurred when parts of the Russian delegation to the General Assembly did not issue American visas. But not only parts of the Russian delegation to the General Assembly, but also delegations to the CTBT conference, ”said Nebenzya.
Earlier, some representatives of the Russian delegation did not receive American visas to participate in the UN General Assembly in New York.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called this outrageous.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “thanked” the United States for “finally receiving a visa from the United States”.
Former UN Under-Secretary-General, Soviet and Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze, in an interview with the NSN, called the incident "a political provocation."