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Roscosmos May Miss UN Satellite Conference in Australia Due to Visa Issues

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Eight out of 10 of Russia's Roscosmos space agency delegates have not received Australian visas, which may force the whole team to miss out on the 2015 International Global Navigation Satellite Systems symposium.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The delegation of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos may be forced to miss the 2015 symposium of the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Society in Australia due to problems obtaining visas, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported Friday.

"Visas were issued to two delegation members out of 10," the co-chairman of the working group of the International Committee on GNSS for the United Nations, Sergey Revnivyh, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

In early June, Revnivyh notified the organizing committee of the IGNSS 2015 symposium that if any member of the delegation was not granted a visa, the Russian delegation would not attend the conference.

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The UN International Committee on GNSS will focus on recommendation projects that will be considered at the 10th annual meeting in the United States.

The Roscosmos visa incident comes after a similar incident last week, when Russia State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and a number of other Russian lawmakers were denied entry visas to travel to Finland for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe summit.

Naryshkin was denied a visa because his name was included in the EU sanction list, as part of the Western sanctions against Moscow.

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