United Nations headquarters in New York. File photoUN, Aug 5 UN Secretary General António Guterres discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield the issue of issuing visas to Russian diplomats, and will continue to work on solving this problem, said RIA Novosti, his official representative Stefan Dujarric. Earlier, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that he had sent a letter to Guterres about the US failure to fulfill its obligations as the country hosting the UN headquarters. «The Secretary General and other high-ranking officials of the UN maintain close contacts with the host country and relevant missions to the UN, including the Russian Federation, on issues related to the UN-US Headquarters Agreement,” Dujarric said. According to him, “the secretary general discussed these issues with Foreign Minister Lavrov and US Ambassador Thomas Greenfield.” «We will continue to work on solutions that contribute to the effective functioning of the UN in its important work,» Dujar added. rik.
A Russian diplomat commented on the US visa refusal for the Krutskys
