The representative of the US State Department said that Washington and Moscow had progress on issues of issuance of diplomatic visas in recent days. Reports about it TASS.
So the representative of the department commented on the information that Moscow and Washington had reached the preliminary arrangements regarding the issuance of Russian entry visas to employees of the American Embassy.
“The functioning embassy is crucial for diplomacy, so we continue to be difficult to solve this problem,” the agency’s source said, expressing the hope that the United States and Russia will continue to move in this direction. He added that the United States continues to discuss with Russia a question regarding issuing visas diplomats.
Earlier, the Russian Ambassador in Washington Anatoly Antonov said that 27 Russian diplomats will leave the United States on January 30, and still go on June 30, 2022, that is, just 54 people. He stressed that the spouses of diploma workers are taken by accreditation, children do not give visas. The diplomat also stated that the United States rejects all the proposals of Russia to restore inter-parliamentary communications, reject requests for meetings in Congress and refuse to listen to Russian arguments.