Do not wait

The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko officially announced the cancellation of her visit to New York. Matvienko’s comment is published on the website of the upper house.

The head of the Council explained that she was going to New York to meet with the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon, as well as take part in the 4th World Conference of the speakers of the parliaments of the countries-members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which will be held on August 29-31, and in the 10th meeting of women-spikers. “However, the US State Department issued me an entry visa only to meet with the UN Secretary General, having prevented my participation in the speakers conference,” continued Matvienko.

“The decision of the US authorities is a gross violation of international law, its own obligations to the international community, question the feasibility of international events in the United States and is unacceptable for us,” the Speaker of the Council said. “I can’t accept such flawed visa conditions, therefore it is not possible to participate in the Russian delegation in the work of the World Word of the Speaker.”

The refusal of the delegation of the Council from a trip to New Yorkwas reported the day before . Nevertheless, the official statement of the upper house did not follow then.

The fact that Matvienko will be given a visa of a limited action was still writing RBC on Tuesday . As explained, the issuance of such visas is the usual practice "in relation to people whom the United States is considered undesirable for being on its territory", however, with the presence of which they are forced to put up, due to the fact that these persons are invited along the UN line.

On Monday , information appeared that the United States completely refused Matvienko on a visa , but this information refuted this information.

On July 7, Matvienko admitted that there is a probability of refusal to her in an American visa. “I don’t exclude this,” said the Speaker of the Council. “Time will tell. But then all the masks will be finally removed.”

Matvienko got into the US sanctions list among the first - March 17, 2014, the day after the "referendum" in the Crimea. Sanctions imply that the Speaker’s speaker is prohibited from entering the United States, and its assets in the territory of this country are blocked.

On March 18, 2014, Matvienko was included in the sanctions list of Canada, March 21 - the European Union , June 19 - Australia .

On July 1, 2015, Finland refused at the entrance to the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin , who, at the head of the Russian delegation, was sent to the session of the OSCE parliamentary assembly. The reason for this decision, the Finnish authorities called the presence of Naryshkin in the EU sanctions list.