The corresponding comment is published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“Failures continue to this day, including to Russian Foreign Ministry staff going to work at the UN headquarters,” the statement said.
Members of delegations heading both to UN events and to other international forums cannot enter the United States.
The Foreign Ministry notes that "the situation has been reduced to absurdity - the heads and experts of our departments do not receive visas, to whom the Americans themselves have sent official invitations."
“As a result, important negotiations break down, damage is done to the full-fledged work of the UN itself,” the department said.
It is noted that the functioning of the diplomatic missions of Russia in the United States is seriously hindered, the US authorities "demonstrate their readiness to flagrantly violate their own international obligations."
“In an attempt to substantiate their destructive approach, the US administration cites visa difficulties that American foreign agencies have to face in our country,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The statement emphasizes that "these arguments do not hold water."
“We did not start the“ visa war ”, which has been waged against Russia for three years, and all our recent steps have been exclusively reciprocal, which Washington knows very well. We have long been calling on Americans to completely and without preconditions normalize the issuance of visas for officials, including members of diplomatic institutions and UN personnel. For our part, we are ready for this at any moment, ”the message says.
The ministry expressed hope that in the United States "common sense will prevail and at least they will no longer obstruct the effective conduct of international events that the United States itself undertakes to organize on its territory."
Otherwise, as stated in the Foreign Ministry, Russia will seek to transfer the venues of international events to other countries with a more favorable political climate.
Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres said that the issue of issuing US visas to diplomats from various countries planning to participate in the UN in New York should be resolved.
On December 19, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution obliging the United States to issue entry visas to diplomats participating in events of the world organization in a timely manner.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the situation with issuing visas, said that the United States openly abuse the privileges of the country where the UN headquarters is located.