US and UN flags at the UN Headquarters in New York. Archival photo UN, Jul 26 The UN Secretariat is cooperating with the US Permanent Mission on issuing visas to foreign diplomats traveling to the organization's headquarters in New York, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General, told RIA Novosti.Earlier The United States did not issue a visa to Andrey Krutskikh, Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who should have led the Russian delegation at the session of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on International Information Security. The session has been held at the UN Headquarters since Monday. First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky previously urged the UN Secretariat to take measures to resolve this situation. «The Secretary General and other senior UN officials maintain close contacts with the host country and relevant missions to the UN, including the Russian Federation, on issues related to the Agreement on headquarters between the UN and the US,” Haq said, responding to a request for comment on Polyansky’s call. “We are actively interacting with the US Mission on visa issues for delegations to upcoming UN meetings at headquarters and liaise with the Mission on specific cases , which are brought to our attention. We are doing the same in this case,» he added. on a visa for the Krutskys
