Russia hit the note of UNESCO due to non-issuance of visas to diplomats
The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that France did not comply with any situation on the occasion of the visit of foreign delegations to the UNESCO event. Russian diplomats were not issued visas.
“Our representative office for providing a communication channel appealed to the UNESCO secretariat – sent a note in which the protocol raised the issue of non-fulfillment of Franco’s obligations in accordance with the agreement between UNESCO and the public,” the permanent mission said. TASS.
Two representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation were unable to receive visits to the 33rd session of the Interregional Council of the UNESCO International Program for the Development of Communications, which was held in Paris in time. According to the permanent mission, the request was sent through the consular department of the embassy in Moscow. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Justice claimed that it did not receive information about problems with the offer of visas. The permanent mission that “there is another attempt to juggle facts.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called UNESCO among the organizations that the United States and its allies are turning into “instruments for the realization of their selfish interests.” In October, some 50 countries staged a demarche at the closing of the UNESCO conference in Mexico City. In May, Russia prevented a meeting at thematic UNESCO conferences organized in honor of World Press Freedom Day. This week, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Alexander Kuznetsov left his post, as well as the post of chairman of the World Heritage Assembly.