France blocked Russia’s participation in the 42nd session of the UNESCO General Conference in Paris. This has been reported comments Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.
For non-issuance of visas on time, the deputy head of the delegation, director of the department of multilateral humanitarian cooperation and cultural relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Alimov, an employee of the Russian UNESCO Commission, is responsible, among other things, for communication and information issues, and is also the secretary general of the commission, Tatyana Dovgalenko.
“In recent months, some Russian representatives were not allowed to participate in international events at the organization’s headquarters in Paris without any explanation,” the comment reads.
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy in September offered Consider Russia’s withdrawal from UNESCO due to criticism of a bill that would allow limited destruction of forests near Lake Baikal.
Russia last November sent A note to UNESCO for not granting visas to Russian representatives to participate in the Program for the Development of International Communication in Paris.
Putin before she made a joke About the “supreme government of Russia”.