Go to Media BankUnited Nations headquarters in New York. File photoUN, 13 Sep. The United States uses the non-issuance of visas to foreign diplomats as a lever to exert political pressure, Sergei Leonidchenko, head of the legal referent of the Russian permanent mission to the UN, said at a meeting of the UN committee on relations with the host country. According to him, the Russian delegation has not yet received a US visa to participate in events session of the UN General Assembly. The high-level week of the session of the General Assembly will be held on September 20-26 in New York at the UN headquarters. delegations will be admitted to the UN platform, and which ones will not. This hardly corresponds to the goals and principles of the charter of the world organization,» Leonidchenko said. treat the assurances of the US representatives in an effort to fix something — their promises too often diverge from real deeds, «Leonidchenko added.» Thus, the US Embassy in Moscow in its Telegram channel recently stated, I quote, that its obligations as a host country of the UN under the UN Headquarters Agreement.» However, in practice we we see that the fulfillment of obligations under the Agreement (with the UN host country – ed.) is made by the American side dependent on the nature of bilateral relations with Russia,” the diplomat said. under the auspices of the world organization is expressly prohibited by the Agreement,» he added.
