Slutsky said that he did not receive an American visa to participate in the UN General Assembly

“I answer: I’m staying in Moscow, at the workplace in the State Duma, they didn’t give me a visa for the trip at the US Embassy in Russia (without a formal refusal. -

),” TASS quotes him.

Earlier, the head of the legal referent of the Russian permanent mission to the UN, Sergei Leonidchenko, announced the introduction by the United States of a de facto permissive procedure for the movement of employees of the Russian mission outside the 25-mile zone around the headquarters of the organization.

First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said that the Russian side would insist on the launch of arbitration against the United States by UN Secretary General António Guterres due to the fact that Russian diplomats constantly face problems in issuing visas.