Stoltenberg will take part in the opening of the UN General Assembly in the USA

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will attend the UN General Assembly next week. should from the alliance message.

Stoltenberg will visit New York from September 18 to 21. NATO clarified that on September 19 the Secretary General will participate in the opening of the General Assembly. On the same day, he will meet with “world leaders and senior officials.”

Stoltenberg is scheduled to participate in a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations on September 21. The NATO Secretary General will also attend the “transatlantic dinner” organized by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The High-Level Week of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly will begin in New York on September 19. The Russian delegation will be headed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He will speak during the general political discussion and will take part in a number of bilateral meetings and multilateral events, including through the UN Security Council, BRICS, CSTO and the Group of Friends for the Defense of the UN Charter. During the General Assembly, Moscow will defend the approaches enshrined in the foreign policy concept updated in March, told previously in the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in August warnedthat Moscow will not ignore the actions of the United States in the event of repeated refusal to issue visas to Russian journalists to cover the events of the General Assembly. In April 2023, there were difficulties in obtaining visas for the Russian delegation to participate in the UN Security Council events on April 24 and 25. According to Zakharova, diplomats received the documents only on April 17. At the same time, the journalists from Lavrov’s pool were not issued visas.