“A long-standing problem persists... The notification procedure for trips outside this zone has actually been replaced by a permissive one.
Our diplomats are forced to wait for the American side to mark "accepted" on their respective applications," TASS quoted him as saying.
According to the diplomat, without such a mark, Russian employees cannot leave, and documents sometimes arrive from the US authorities with a significant delay.
Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that the Russian Embassy in the United States had applied to the State Department with a request to issue visas to Lavrov and other members of the Russian delegation to the UN General Assembly.
Deputy official representative of the Secretary General of the international organization Farhan Haq noted that António Guterres is in constant contact with the US and Russia on the visa issue.