Russian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Russia's chief diplomat since 2004, the longest-serving foreign minister since Soviet times. He's the unshakeable public face of Moscow's foreign policy under Putin — measured, multilingual, and built to defend positions the West won't touch.
Lavrov graduated from MGIMO in 1972 and started his career in Sri Lanka, picking up Sinhala and Dhivehi along the way. He spent much of the 1980s at the Soviet UN mission in New York, then rose through the Foreign Ministry's international organizations department before becoming a deputy minister in 1992. As Russia's UN ambassador from 1994 to 2004, he built his reputation during the Kosovo War and Iraq invasion — assertive, unbudging, always ready to argue Moscow's corner. Putin made him foreign minister in 2004, and he's held the post ever since, the constant architect and explainer of a for…
Sourced, dated quotes from Sergey Lavrov
Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them [have] never left the United States. They live in their own walls.
As the Libyan experience has shown, sadly, a military scenario is possible. We won’t allow any more such disingenuous interpretations.
We discussed this issue. We welcome steps Pakistan and India have taken on confidence-building measures.
If something goes wrong in Syria, many countries of the region will feel a negative impact. We can’t support isolation because of the lesson we drew from Libya.
We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen.
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