The UN General Assembly is about to be held, and the United States refuses to issue a visa to the representative of Russia

According to foreign media reports on the 3rd, Russia intends to send delegations to New York to participate in the UN General Assembly later this month, but as of now, the United States has not issued visas to members of the delegation. Russia has expressed "shock" to the United Nations Secretary -General.

It is reported that Russia's permanent representative of the United Nations Nirbianja wrote in a letter to the United Nations Secretary -General Gutres that as of Thursday, no one of the 56 representatives of Russian teams and ancestors had obtained US entry visas.

Nirbianja said that "with similar situations in Russian Foreign Minister Rafrov preparing for riding," accompanying journalists and crew members also have similar situations. " Lavrov plans to lead the Russian delegation from September 20th to 26th to attend the UN General Assembly.

Russia's permanent representative of the United Nations Nirvana

"This is even more shocking, because in the past few months, the US authorities have always refused to issue an entry visa to some Russian representatives assigned to participate in the official activities of the United Nations," Nirbian Jia added. "Visa issuance is the legal obligation of the host country. Instead of rights or privileges. "

According to an agreement in 1947, the United States must not prevent representatives of UN members from going to the United Nations headquarters of New York.

After the conflict of Russia and Ukraine in February this year, the United States announced sanctions on Russian President Putin, Raifrov, and others, including prohibiting them from entering the United States.

A U.S. State Department spokesman said that "the United States has carefully fulfilled its obligation to be the host of the United Nations", but he will not comment on individual cases because "visa records are kept confidential according to US law."

"In order to ensure timely treatment, we repeatedly reminded Russia in the United Nations delegation, just like we reminded all other United Nations delegations, the United States needs (you) to apply as soon as possible," the spokesman said. He blamed the reason for the delay of visa on Moscow's "work to forcibly terminate local and third -country employees in the US Embassy in Russia."

A spokesman for the UN Secretary -General Gutres said that he was "close contact" with the United States on the rules under the 1947 agreement.

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