Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vasily Nebenzya . File photoMOSCOW, February 9Some employees of Russian diplomatic missions cannot leave the territory of the United States, said Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the UN. concerning both the extension of visas to existing employees who, in the absence of a visa expiration problem, cannot leave the country, even if they have humanitarian reasons for this.Relatively speaking, the death of relatives of relatives.If a person leaves for a funeral, he will not return here, because will receive a visa,» he said on the air of «Russia 24».Russia proposed to the United States to freeze absurd visa requirementsAccording to a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the permanent mission is trying to contact the American mission directly and some issues are being resolved, but this cannot be called a systemic settlement of visa problems. handed him a message from the minister, in which he lists these problems and requires the Secretary General to start an arbitration procedure under the relevant article of the agreement with the host side in order to sort out the actions of the authorities of the country, which is obliged to provide conditions for the work of the mission to the UN,” Nebenzya said. Since mid-May, the US Embassy in Moscow has suspended all non-diplomatic, non-immigrant visa services, tying this to a decision by the Russian authorities to ban the hiring of local and foreign personnel. The provision of services by American diplomats at the consulate in Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok is also frozen. Russia demanded that the United States not hire Russian citizens to work as a response to the next sanctions that Washington imposed in April. The United States artificially limits the issuance of non-immigrant visas to Russians in order to «bargain» for itself unilateral concessions, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. The Russian side constantly raises the issue of the need to normalize the process.
