In a Press release issued by the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s participation in the upcoming OSCE Ministerial Council meeting held in Malta, the Ministry said that Special attention will be paid to failure to issue visas to members of the Russian delegation who planned to attend various OSCE events, including the upcoming Ministerial Council meeting.
Cancelling, right before the event, a visa that had been earlier issued by the Maltese Chairpersonship to Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, allegedly due to circumstances beyond their control, was unprecedented.
