Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov promised to prepare a response to the failure of members of the Russian delegation visas to participate in the activities of the UN General Assembly.
A journalist of the First channel noted on what the measures being discussed.
The dialogue took place on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 74th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in new York.
before the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said that certain members of the Russian delegation has not received a Us visa for " technical reasons ". The Diplomat considered the explanation of the US capital untenable.
The leadership of the Russian Federation expressed concern about the incident. For his part, Lavrov called the refusal to issue visas to shame.
yesterday the Russian foreign Minister in interview to the newspaper "Kommersant" said that in 2018, Moscow has met Washington and at the request of the American partners have included coming to the Russian Federation delegation, Senator Ron Johnson, are in the sanctions list.
U.S. policy promised to meet the mirror, however, as said Lavrov, this year in the capital of the United States told that to issue a visa to anyone from the sanctions list is " essentially impossible." The diplomat called it a sad demonstration of " American exceptionalism ".
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