“As of September 1, none of the 56 representatives of the core team and the advance group received entry visas to the United States,” RIA Novosti quoted a statement.
In addition, according to Nebenzi, the accompanying journalists and crew members of the flight of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have not yet received visas.
On August 31, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russian diplomats had applied for visas to participate in the UN General Assembly.
The head of the department of international organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Pyotr Ilyichev, said that Moscow proceeds from the fact that the United States will promptly provide Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the entire delegation with visas to participate in the high-level week of the UN General Assembly session.