Zakharova in her Facebook commented on the statement of the representative of the American Foreign Ministry that the United States "takes its obligations seriously."
She noted that the “serious attitude” was demonstrated by the Russian side when US delegations led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued 200 visas for a visit to Sochi.
“First, take passports, then give them back with the explanation“ too soon, ”then collect them again and, as a result, do not issue about 10 visas without any clear reason to people whose functional responsibilities are directly related to the work of the UN, this, as Sergey said Lavrov, shame. And not a “serious attitude,” she said.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the United States did not issue visas to representatives of the Russian delegation at the UN General Assembly, as well as to participants in the conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT).
Former UN Under-Secretary-General, Soviet and Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze, in an interview with the NSN, called the incident "a political provocation."