Moscow’s delegation to the UN Common Meeting has not been granted entry visas but, in line with a Russian envoy
Russia’s everlasting consultant on the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, has requested the group to influence the US to grant visas for members of Moscow’s delegation to the UN Common Meeting. They’re heading to New York to attend the high-level common debate that shall be held between September 20 and 26.
The request was made in a letter that Nebenzia forwarded to UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres on Friday. The doc has been seen by each Russian and the Western media.
In his message, the envoy identified that, with lower than three weeks remaining earlier than the Common Meeting, not a single member of Russia’s delegation has acquired entry visas from the US. The Russian aspect, headed by Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov, had submitted the related functions to attend the occasion to the American embassy in Moscow, the diplomat reportedly added.
“That is much more alarming since, for the final a number of months, the authorities of the US have been consistently refusing to grant entry visas to plenty of Russian delegates assigned to participate within the official United Nations occasions,” the letter learn, as quoted by the media.
Earlier this week, Nebenzia identified that Russian Inside Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and his delegation couldn’t attend a gathering of UN police chiefs as a result of the US refused to grant them visas.
The Russian envoy cited the 1947 settlement between the UN and the US, which states that “visas shall be granted with out cost and as promptly as attainable… no matter the relations present between the governments of the individuals referred to… and the federal government of the US.”
The already strained relations between Moscow and Washington have deteriorated even additional because the launch of the Russian army operation in Ukraine. The US has slapped harsh financial sanctions on Russia whereas backing Kiev and offering it with billions of {dollars} in army help, in addition to with intelligence.
Nebenzia urged Guterres “to as soon as once more emphasize to the authorities of the US that they need to promptly subject requested visas for all Russian delegates and accompanying individuals,” together with the Russian journalists protecting Lavrov’s journey to the Common Meeting.
A spokesperson for the US mission to the UN, who wasn’t approved to be quoted by identify, assured AP that the US was taking its host nation obligations severely.
“To make sure well timed processing, we repeatedly remind the Russian mission to the UN, as we do all different UN missions, that the US wants functions as early as attainable,” the spokesperson stated.
The US mission consultant linked the delays in visas for Moscow’s delegation to “Russia’s unwarranted actions in opposition to our embassy in Russia, together with the pressured termination of native and third nation nationwide employees, which have severely restricted our staffing and subsequently our capability to course of visas.” These measures had been launched by Moscow in response to comparable strikes by Washington.
When requested to touch upon Nebenzia’s letter, UN spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez stated the group stays in shut contact with the US on the problems of visas for international delegations. “We’re doing so on this case,” she confirmed.
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