“Russia, unfortunately, has brought this bilateral issue to the multilateral level,” Wood's statement at the RIA Novosti press conference quotes.
According to him, visa issues between countries have arisen before.
At the same time, he emphasized the right of the United States as a host to make a decision on issuing visas or refusing them.
“I hope we can continue to work (the United Nations First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. - RT ),” added Wood.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said that 6-7 Russian delegates planning to take part in the work of the UN First Committee were not issued American visas.
At the end of September, the United States refused to issue a visa to the UN General Assembly to certain Russian diplomats, as well as Konstantin Kosachev, a member of the Federation Council and Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs.
The head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at Moscow University for the Humanities, diplomat Nikolai Platoshkin, in an interview with the NSN, called this situation American bureaucracy, which needs to be reacted to.