New York-SANA
Russia has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations early next week to discuss the issue of fraud and control by Washington by granting visas to diplomats and foreign officials heading to the headquarters of the international organization in New York.
"We asked for an urgent session of the public relations committee at the United Nations with the host country, where this session will take place early next week, and we will request that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attend and inform us of what is happening in the matter of resolving the terrible situation," Russia's Tass news agency quoted the permanent representative of Russia to the international organization Vasily Nebenzia as saying. With issues of not granting visas to official delegates, especially to heads of delegations, during United Nations meetings.
The United Nations had announced earlier that the United States did not issue a visa in time for the head of the Russian delegation to the session of the Disarmament Commission, Konstantin Vorontsov, and this caused the committee meeting to be postponed for 10 days.
Since the beginning of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, the United States has not issued visas to 18 Russian delegates, including to participate in the events of the September high-level week.
Last December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the US side to stop manipulating the issuance or delay of granting visas to diplomats of a number of countries, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela, to reach meetings organized by the United Nations.