By the end of the year, the state of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Houston will decrease to two people if the United States continues the policy of “visa containment”. New challenges of the Russian diplomission in Houston Alexander Zakharov, his words lead RIA Novosti.
As noted by the diplomat, two people are less than a quarter of the intended number.
“Americans continue to keep the” visa containment “policy, without issuing ready-made visa candidates. And if earlier, the individual so-called” visa differences “were carried out, and recently the situation stalled,” said Zakharov.
he added that the responsibilities of the Consulate General include both all consular actions like signing and paperwork, visiting persons under arrest or imprisoned and promoting the interests of Russia, the development of bilateral economic, cultural, educational and other relations, information Explanatory work.
According to him, the United States continues to introduce new restrictions on the complete set of Russian dipms. He stressed that with the departure of employees, the three-year term of which in the United States ends, new diplomats do not receive a visa to come to work in the Consulate. Normal and full-length work of diplomatic missions and consular institutions “need only the Russian side”, Zakharov spoke.
September 25 reported that Russia demands removal of restrictions from a number of diplomats in exchange for issuing a visa to the US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.
Earlier, the Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that Victoria Nuland, which is located in the black lists of the Russian authorities, until they gave a visa to travel to Russia. The newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to diplomatic sources noted that Russia and the United States coordinate the possibility of her visit to Moscow. The trip may take place, even though the US departure is in black lists of the Russian authorities – it is prohibited by entry into the territory of the Russian Federation.