The United States did not issue a visa to the delegation of the General Staff of Russia for a trip to the UN conference
Members of the delegation of the Ministry of Defense of Russia were not issued a US visa to participate in a joint Russian-Chinese conference of the military at the UN, said RIA News Representative Office Alexander Emelyanov.
On Thursday, the United Nations held a briefing by the Russian and Chinese military on the deployment of a global US missile defense system. According to Yemelyanov, a delegation of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces under the leadership of the adviser and chief of the General Staff of the First Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Tretyak, planned to participate in the briefing.
“However, the local side of the entire delegation of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, including Lieutenant General Tretyak, did not obtain an entry visa to the United States,” Emelyanov said.
Earlier, the Defense Ministry said that the number of US missile defense system by 2022 could exceed the number of warheads on Russian intercontinental missiles, the TV channel writesRain". Yemelyanov said that by that time the US system will have a thousand antimissiles.
“Such a number of missile defense weapons represents a threat to the Russian deterrence potential, especially given the ongoing work to modernize missile defense missile systems,” he said.
Yemelyanov pointed out that "the unlimited deployment of the American missile defense system is a serious challenge to global security, an incentive for an arms race and a threat to all of humanity."
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