Sergei Lavrov
Sergei Lavrov
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrovis a Russian diplomat, and is currently the Foreign Minister of Russia, in office since 2004...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth21 March 1950
CountryRussian Federation
We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.
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were clearly intended to break off any move forward in the Palestinian-Israeli area of a Middle East settlement.
critically taken
The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.
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I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.
members nuclear treaty
All members of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have this right,
members nuclear treaty
All members of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have this right,
domestic
You know that we are not in the regime-change game. We are against interference in domestic conflicts.
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The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.
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And it is at least strange that, while talking about a certain 'pulling back', as he put it, on some of the democratic reforms in the Russian Federation, he tried to assert yet one more time the thought that democracy can only be copied from someone's model,
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The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups.