The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the United States of blocking the work of many delegations to the UN

About this, as reported by TASS, he said during a meeting of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly.

According to him, the problem of obtaining visas by a number of delegations is caused by Washington's systematic failure to fulfill its obligations as a host country.

“Washington has made clear commitments to ensure the most favorable conditions for UN events in New York, and now for many years it has ignored these obligations and has blocked the work of many delegations,” Yermakov said.

Earlier, the United States did not issue visas to 6-7 Russian delegates planning to participate in the work of the UN First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.

In late September, Washington refused to issue a visa to the UN General Assembly to some employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russian parliamentarians.

The deputy chairman of the Federation Council committee Andrei Klimov, in an interview with Vzglyad, called on the UN to respond to politically motivated refusal of American visas to members of the Russian delegation.