Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the United States preventing the Russian government delegation from attending the 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York
5 May 2022 22:02
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The US authorities have again prevented Russian representatives from attending an event held under the UN aegis.
The United States has refused to issue US entry visas to Russian delegation head and Head of the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs Igor Barinov, a Russian Foreign Ministry official, and a number of representatives of small indigenous peoples of the North of the Russian Federation, who had planned to travel to New York on April 24 to attend the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
The Foreign Ministry regards these actions as part of a consistent US policy that constitutes a serious breach of the US commitments under the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations of October 31, 1947. The obvious aim of this move is to escalate the confrontation with Russia at all costs by blocking any possibility of full-scale Russian representation and work at the UN venue.
This aggressive attitude will certainly receive a response.
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