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Statement of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov became a wake-up call for the United States at the UN Security Council meeting, writes analyst Paul Withers in an article for the Daily Express. RT informs about it.
Lavrov said at the UN Security Council meeting that Russia will keep in mind the dishonest behavior of the United States in the situation of not granting visas to Russian journalists. The diplomat warned that Moscow will take this visa situation into account if Washington “needs anything” from us in the future. Prior to Lavrov's visit, the US prevented several Russian journalists from attending meetings.
The analyst believes that such a reaction was a surprise for the American side. He also pointed out that Lavrov raised the issue of “cowardice” on the part of Washington.
Russian media personnel who were supposed to accompany Sergei Lavrov in New York for events at the UN Security Council during the Russian presidency did not receive American visas. The White House Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby called the Russian media propaganda bodies and said that in this way Washington is fighting for the independence of journalism.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called this situation a shameless disregard for interstate norms of interaction and demanded an appropriate response from the United Nations . The press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, said that the situation with the refusal to grant visas to Russian journalists to accompany the Russian Foreign Minister to the United Nations Security Council meeting in the United States should be a topic for serious discussion in the world organization.< /p>