“The United States, taking advantage of the position of the host country of the UN headquarters, at its discretion, as you know, does not issue visas to foreign delegations, in particular the Russian one, which is a gross violation of the UN charter and the agreement on the location of the UN central services,” Zakharova said .
Earlier, the UN Disarmament Commission postponed the meeting in connection with the issuance of an American visa on time to the head of the Russian delegation, Konstantin Vorontsov.
Russia requested an emergency committee meeting.
The Kremlin said that Moscow is concerned about the situation with visa issuance by the American side to Russian diplomats who work at the UN.
Problems with issuing visas to Russians to participate in international events in the United States began to arise regularly since 2014.