MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. The US embassy in Moscow has not yet returned passports to Russian journalists who we supposed to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at UNSC events, journalists told TASS on Sunday.

They said that they had been invited to the embassy on visa-related matters on April 22, the last day before the minister’s departure. Initially, the interview at the embassy was scheduled for March 31 but was cancelled.

"The Americans have not yet returned the passports," the journalists said.

Before taking off for New York earlier on Sunday, Lavrov pledged that Russia "will not forget and will not forgive" the non-issuance of US visas to Russian journalists.