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He is the longest-serving Russian foreign minister since <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Gromyko" title="Andrei Gromyko">Andrei Gromyko</a> during the Soviet Union.<a href="#cite_note-Official-bio-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> <table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Sergey Lavrov</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>Сергей Лавров</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_(18-11-2022)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2818-11-2022%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="653" data-file-height="961"></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Lavrov in 2022</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Russia)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)">Minister of Foreign Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">Assumed office 9 March 2004</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev">Dmitry Medvedev</a></li> <li>Vladimir Putin</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Fradkov" title="Mikhail Fradkov">Mikhail Fradkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Zubkov" title="Viktor Zubkov">Viktor Zubkov</a></li> <li>Vladimir Putin</li> <li>Dmitry Medvedev</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Mishustin" title="Mikhail Mishustin">Mikhail Mishustin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Igor_Ivanov" title="Igor Ivanov">Igor Ivanov</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Permanent_Representative_of_Russia_to_the_United_Nations" title="Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations">Ambassador of Russia to the United Nations</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 22 September 1994 – 12 July 2004</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Nominated by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yuli_Vorontsov" title="Yuli Vorontsov">Yuli Vorontsov</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrey_Denisov" title="Andrey Denisov">Andrey Denisov</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov</div> (1950-03-21) 21 March 1950 (age 74) <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a>, Soviet Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Russia" title="United Russia">United Russia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Maria Lavrova</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1971)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations" title="Moscow State Institute of International Relations">Moscow State Institute of International Relations</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hero_of_Labour_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation">Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation</a>; Full Cavalier of the <a href="/wiki/Order_%22For_Merit_to_the_Fatherland%22" title='Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"'>Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sergey Lavrov's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg/90px-Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg/135px-Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg/180px-Sergey_Lavrov%E2%80%99s_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="455"></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Lavrov was born in Moscow and graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations" title="Moscow State Institute of International Relations">Moscow State Institute of International Relations</a> (MGIMO) in 1972. He received his first Soviet diplomatic posting in <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, and speaks fluent <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maldivian_language" title="Maldivian language">Dhivehi</a>, English, and French, in addition to his native Russian. From 1981 to 1988 Lavrov held several posts in the <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Mission_of_Russia_to_the_United_Nations" title="Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations">Soviet Permanent Mission to the United Nations</a> in New York City. Starting in the late 1980s he was deputy director and then director of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Russia)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)">Foreign Ministry</a>'s Department of International Organizations before becoming a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1992. Lavrov was the <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Representative_of_Russia_to_the_United_Nations" title="Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations">permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations</a> from 1994 to 2004.<a href="#cite_note-Official-bio-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> His tenure in that role coincided with several crises, namely the <a href="/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a> and the U.S.-led <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invasion of Iraq</a>. Lavrov gained a reputation for assertively defending Russia's foreign policy interests and was considered to be the most influential member of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">UN Security Council</a>. He was made the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs in March 2004.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_life_and_education">1 Early life and education</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Career">2 Career</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Soviet_diplomat_in_Sri_Lanka_(1972%E2%80%931975)">2.1 Soviet diplomat in Sri Lanka (1972–1975)</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#USSR_Section_for_International_Economic_Relations_and_the_UN">2.2 USSR Section for International Economic Relations and the UN</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Soviet-to-CIS_transition_(1992%E2%80%931994)">2.3 Soviet-to-CIS transition (1992–1994)</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Russian_Permanent_Representative_to_the_UN_(1994%E2%80%932004)">2.4 Russian Permanent Representative to the UN (1994–2004)</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Foreign_minister_of_Russia_(2004%E2%80%93present)">2.5 Foreign minister of Russia (2004–present)</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Civil_war_in_Syria">2.5.1 Civil war in Syria</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Russian-Ukrainian_conflict_2014">2.5.2 Russian-Ukrainian conflict 2014</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#2017_North_Korea_crisis">2.5.3 2017 North Korea crisis</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="#US_sanctions">2.5.4 US sanctions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Ukraine's_education_law">2.5.5 Ukraine's education law</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#Non-citizens_in_Latvia_and_Estonia">2.5.6 Non-citizens in Latvia and Estonia</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14"><a href="#NATO's_Defender-Europe_2021">2.5.7 NATO's Defender-Europe 2021</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15"><a href="#2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">2.5.8 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16"><a href="#Miscellaneous_other_business">2.5.9 Miscellaneous other business</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#Personal_life">3 Personal life</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Sanctions">4 Sanctions</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Rescinded_honorary_doctorate">4.1 Rescinded honorary doctorate</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Honors">5 Honors</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="#Russian_Honors">5.1 Russian Honors</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Foreign_honours">5.2 Foreign honours</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#Distinctions">5.3 Distinctions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#See_also">6 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Notes">7 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#References">8 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27"><a href="#Further_reading">9 Further reading</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28"><a href="#External_links">10 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> Lavrov was born on 21 March 1950<a href="#cite_note-dub2012jun-5">[5]</a> in Moscow, to an <a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Tbilisi" title="Armenians in Tbilisi">Armenian</a> father from <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic">Georgian SSR</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russian</a> mother from <a href="/wiki/Noginsk" title="Noginsk">Noginsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Socialist_Federative_Soviet_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic">Russian SFSR</a>. His father's surname was originally Kalantaryan.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-lyons-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> His mother worked in the Soviet Ministry for Foreign Trade. Lavrov graduated from high school with a silver medal. Since his favorite class was physics, he planned to enter either the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Engineering_Physics_Institute_(National_Research_Nuclear_University)" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)">National Research Nuclear University</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Institute_of_Physics_and_Technology" title="Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology">Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology</a>, but he entered the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations" title="Moscow State Institute of International Relations">Moscow State Institute of International Relations</a> (MGIMO) and graduated in 1972.<a href="#cite_note-dub2012jun-5">[5]</a> During his education at the MGIMO, Lavrov studied <a href="/wiki/International_relations" title="International relations">international relations</a>. Soon he learned <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhalese</a>, then the only official language of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Dhivehi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhivehi language">Dhivehi</a>, the official language of the <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a>. He also learned <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>. After he was admitted to the university, Lavrov, along with other students, was sent for a month to a <a href="/wiki/Student_construction_brigade" title="Student construction brigade">student construction brigade</a> building the <a href="/wiki/Ostankino_Tower" title="Ostankino Tower">Ostankino Tower</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> During his summer vacations, Lavrov also worked in his university's student construction brigades in <a href="/wiki/Khakassia" title="Khakassia">Khakassia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva">Tuva</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a>. Each semester, Lavrov with his fellow students conducted drama performances, which were later presented on the main stage of the university. During the third year of his studies, Lavrov was married.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soviet_diplomat_in_Sri_Lanka_(1972–1975)">Soviet diplomat in Sri Lanka (1972–1975)</h3></div> Lavrov graduated in 1972. According to the rules of that time, a graduate of the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations" title="Moscow State Institute of International Relations">Moscow State Institute of International Relations</a> had to work for the Foreign Ministry for a certain amount of time. Lavrov was employed in the Soviet embassy in <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> as an advisor, as he was already a specialist on the country. At the time, the Soviet Union and Sri Lanka had close market and economic cooperation and the Soviet Union launched the production of <a href="/wiki/Natural_rubber" title="Natural rubber">natural rubber</a> in the country.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> The Soviet embassy in Sri Lanka also maintained relations with the Maldives. The embassy in Sri Lanka employed only 24 diplomats. Lavrov was given the task of continuously analysing the situation in the country, but he also worked as a translator, personal secretary and assistant to <a href="/wiki/Rafiq_Nishonov" title="Rafiq Nishonov">Rafiq Nishonov</a>, who would later become the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Uzbekistan" title="Communist Party of Uzbekistan">12th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbek SSR</a>. In addition, he gained the diplomatic rank of an <a href="/wiki/Attach%C3%A9" title="Attaché">attaché</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="USSR_Section_for_International_Economic_Relations_and_the_UN">USSR Section for International Economic Relations and the UN</h3></div> In 1976, Lavrov returned to Moscow. He worked as a third and second secretary in the Section for International Economic Relations of the USSR. There, he was involved in analytics and his office also worked with various international organizations, including the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>. In 1981, he was sent as a senior adviser to the Soviet mission to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. In 1988, Lavrov returned to Moscow and was named Deputy Chief of the Section for International Economic Relations of the USSR. Between 1990 and 1992 he worked as Director of the International Organization of the Soviet Foreign Ministry.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soviet-to-CIS_transition_(1992–1994)">Soviet-to-CIS transition (1992–1994)</h3></div> In October 1991, <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Kozyrev" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrey Kozyrev">Andrey Kozyrev</a>, who was in charge of monitoring international organizations at the time, was named Foreign Minister of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a> (Russian SFSR). In that year, the powers of the Soviet Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Ministry of the Russian SFSR were distributed. Until then the Russian SFSR had only a ceremonial role. In October 1992, the foreign ministers of all Soviet republics, except <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_states" title="Baltic states">Baltic states</a>, held a meeting where they dealt with the Union of Foreign Ministries.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> In November 1991, the State Council decided to change its name from the Union of Foreign Ministries to the Foreign Ministry of the Soviet Union. In April 1992, he was named deputy foreign minister.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> In December 1991, the Foreign Ministry of Soviet Russia became the Foreign Ministry of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Russia_(1991%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Russia (1991–present)">Russian Federation</a>. In 1992, Lavrov was named director of the Department for International Organizations and Global Issues in the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> Lavrov was asked to oversee the activities of the Human Rights and International Cultural Cooperation and the two departments – for the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">CIS</a> countries, international organizations and international economic cooperation.<a href="#cite_note-Lenta-10">[10]</a> Lavrov was promoted to the diplomatic rank of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary — the highest diplomatic rank in the Russian Federation — by the Decree of the then <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President of Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a>, on 5 June 1992 No. 568.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian_Permanent_Representative_to_the_UN_(1994–2004)">Russian Permanent Representative to the UN (1994–2004)</h3></div> Lavrov worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1994 when he returned to work in the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, this time as the Permanent Representative of Russia. While in the latter position, he was the President of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a> in December 1995, June 1997, July 1998, October 1999,<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> December 2000, April 2002, and June 2003.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_minister_of_Russia_(2004–present)">Foreign minister of Russia (2004–present)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg/220px-Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="237" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1216" data-file-height="1312"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 237px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg/220px-Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="237" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg/330px-Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg/440px-Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, 17 September 2004</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg/220px-President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="350"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 150px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg/220px-President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="150" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg/330px-President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg/440px-President_George_W._Bush_and_Sergey_Lavrov.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov Meets with President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 March 2006</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="350"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_meets_with_Sergey_Lavrov_5-7-09.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov Meets with President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 May 2009</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian,_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg/330px-RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg/440px-RIAN_archive_623272_Ukrainian%2C_Russian_foreign_ministers_visit_Ukrainian_Diplomatic_Service_History_Museum.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov with Ukrainian Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Kostyantyn_Gryshchenko" title="Kostyantyn Gryshchenko">Kostyantyn Gryshchenko</a> in Kyiv, 10 April 2010</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg/220px-Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3323" data-file-height="2568"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 170px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg/220px-Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="170" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg/330px-Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg/440px-Msc2011_SZ_002_Lavrov_Clinton.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov with US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, Munich, Germany, on 5 February 2011</figcaption></figure> On 9 March 2004, President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> appointed Lavrov to the post of minister of foreign affairs.<a href="#cite_note-dub2012jun-5">[5]</a> He succeeded <a href="/wiki/Igor_Ivanov" title="Igor Ivanov">Igor Ivanov</a> in the post. Lavrov held on to his position through <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_Second_Cabinet" title="Vladimir Putin's Second Cabinet">Vladimir Putin's Second Cabinet</a> while <a href="/wiki/Dmitri_Medvedev" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitri Medvedev">Dmitri Medvedev</a> occupied the presidency from 2008 to 2012. On 21 May 2012, Lavrov was reappointed foreign minister to <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev%27s_First_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitry Medvedev's First Cabinet">the cabinet</a> led by prime minister <a href="/wiki/Dimitri_Medvedev" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimitri Medvedev">Dimitri Medvedev</a>.<a href="#cite_note-dub2012jun-5">[5]</a> Lavrov is regarded as continuing in the style of his predecessor: a brilliant diplomat but a civil servant rather than a politician. A <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Russia" title="Foreign relations of Russia">Russian foreign policy</a> expert at London's <a href="/wiki/Chatham_House" title="Chatham House">Chatham House</a> has described him as "a tough, reliable, extremely sophisticated negotiator" but adds that "he's not part of <a href="/wiki/Putin%27s_inner_sanctum" class="mw-redirect" title="Putin's inner sanctum">Putin's inner sanctum</a>" and that the toughening of Russian foreign policy has got very little to do with him.<a href="#cite_note-news.bbc.co.uk-14">[14]</a> US politicians have been much more critical in their appraisal of Lavrov, seeing him as emblematic of President Putin's resurgent violent foreign policies. Then US <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State of the United States">Secretary of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> found that Lavrov treated her poorly during negotiations, like a "jerk."<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Several <a href="/wiki/Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama administration">Obama administration</a> officials interviewed for a profile on Lavrov described him as an “anti-diplomat” with “nothing redeemable” about his “uncharismatic, offensive, uncompromising, cruel, unlikeable, brusque, caddish” character.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> On 15 January 2020, he resigned as part of the cabinet, after <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> delivered the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Address_to_the_Federal_Assembly" title="Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly">Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly</a>, in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> On 21 January 2020, he maintained his position in <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Mishustin%27s_First_Cabinet" title="Mikhail Mishustin's First Cabinet">Mikhail Mishustin's Cabinet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Civil_war_in_Syria">Civil war in Syria</h4></div> In 2012, in the early stages of the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a>, a Russian delegation travelled to Syria to affirm Russia's backing of the Syrian government of the President <a href="/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad" title="Bashar al-Assad">Bashar al-Assad</a>. Lavrov and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Fradkov" title="Mikhail Fradkov">Mikhail Fradkov</a>, who were part of the delegation, were given a favorable welcome by thousands of pro-Assad supporters. The supporters waved Russian flags in thanks to Russia's veto of a UN resolution calling for tough sanctions on the Syrian government.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> In September 2013, then Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> and Lavrov reached a breakthrough agreement that would destroy almost all <a href="/wiki/Chemical_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemical weapons">chemical weapons</a> stored in Assad's Syria. The deal was reached after three challenging rounds of talks in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. Soon after, Syria fully accepted this plan, and by June 2014 all chemical weapons submitted by the Syrian government were safely incinerated in the Eastern Mediterranean. The director general of the <a href="/wiki/Organisation_for_the_Prohibition_of_Chemical_Weapons" title="Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons">Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons</a> at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> declared that this treaty was a major benchmark.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In October 2019, Lavrov condemned <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s decision to send American troops to guard <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Syria" title="Petroleum industry in Syria">Syria's oil fields</a> and possibly exploit them, saying that any "exploitation of natural resources of a sovereign state without its consent is illegal".<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> Amid the <a href="/wiki/2024_Syrian_opposition_offensives" title="2024 Syrian opposition offensives">2024 Syrian opposition offensives</a> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Damascus_(2024)" title="Fall of Damascus (2024)">fall of Damascus</a>, Lavrov was reported to have led efforts to facilitate the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Assad_regime" title="Fall of the Assad regime">departure</a> of president Assad by negotiating with Turkey and Qatar to persuade <a href="/wiki/Hay%27at_Tahrir_al-Sham" title="Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham">Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham</a> to let Assad leave Syria.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Russian-Ukrainian_conflict_2014">Russian-Ukrainian conflict 2014</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg/220px-Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="772"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 142px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg/220px-Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="142" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg/330px-Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg/440px-Spominska_slovesnost_in_odprtje_muzeja_v_spomin_na_umrle_sovjetske_vojne_ujetnike_2014_6.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov in <a href="/wiki/Maribor" title="Maribor">Maribor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>, 8 July 2014 during the opening ceremony for a museum commemorating the <a href="/wiki/German_mistreatment_of_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war">Soviet soldiers who died in Nazi captivity</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow,_Russia_(25726476430).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3280"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="146" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Kerry_Shakes_Hands_With_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Moscow%2C_Russia_%2825726476430%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> and Lavrov before a bilateral meeting in Moscow, on 24 March 2016</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg/220px-Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg/220px-Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg/330px-Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg/440px-Prime_Minister_Modi_and_President_Putin_at_the_2016_SCO_Summit_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Putin, Lavrov and Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> at the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation" title="Shanghai Cooperation Organisation">SCO Summit</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_(33754471034).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg/220px-President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg/220px-President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg/330px-President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg/440px-President_Trump_Meets_with_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_%2833754471034%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov meets with President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> in the Oval Office of the White House, 10 May 2017</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_(2020-01-23)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg/220px-Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg/220px-Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg/330px-Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg/440px-Remembering_the_Holocaust._Fighting_Antisemitism_forum_%282020-01-23%29_02.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Putin, Lavrov, Israeli Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> and Israeli President <a href="/wiki/Reuven_Rivlin" title="Reuven Rivlin">Reuven Rivlin</a> at the <a href="/wiki/World_Holocaust_Forum" title="World Holocaust Forum">World Holocaust Forum</a>, 23 January 2020</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P20210616AS-0561_(51269449735).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg/220px-P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg/220px-P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg/330px-P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg/440px-P20210616AS-0561_%2851269449735%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Antony_Blinken" title="Antony Blinken">Antony Blinken</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>, Vladimir Putin and Lavrov at the <a href="/wiki/2021_Russia%E2%80%93United_States_summit" title="2021 Russia–United States summit">2021 Russia–United States summit</a> in Geneva, Switzerland</figcaption></figure> After the March <a href="/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum" title="2014 Crimean status referendum">2014 Crimean status referendum</a>,<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Lavrov proposed that Ukraine should be independent of any bloc, that the Russian language be recognised officially, and that the constitution be organised along federal lines.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In an interview with the <a href="/wiki/Russia-24" title="Russia-24">Russia-24</a> TV channel, Lavrov said that the <a href="/wiki/Zero-sum" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero-sum">zero-sum</a> "either-or" bloc-politics of Ukraine were first suggested in 2004 by <a href="/wiki/Karel_De_Gucht" title="Karel De Gucht">Karel De Gucht</a>, then Foreign Minister of Belgium.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> When <a href="/wiki/Group_of_Eight" class="mw-redirect" title="Group of Eight">G8</a> leaders voted to officially suspend Russia's membership on 24 March, Lavrov stated that the G8 was an informal organization and membership was optional for Russia.<a href="#cite_note-CNN.com-27">[27]</a> In a 30 March interview, he spoke of the <a href="/wiki/Agreement_on_settlement_of_political_crisis_in_Ukraine" title="Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine">21 February agreement</a> which was signed by <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Viktor Yanukovich">Viktor Yanukovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Klitchko" class="mw-redirect" title="Vitaly Klitchko">Vitaly Klitchko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk" title="Arseniy Yatsenyuk">Arseniy Yatsenyuk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oleg_Tyagnibok" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleg Tyagnibok">Oleg Tyagnibok</a> as well as the Foreign Ministers of Poland, France and Germany to promote peaceful changes in Ukrainian power. Lavrov stressed federalism as a solution to the constitutional impasse in Ukraine, and deplored the <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">de-officialisation</a> of the Russian language. He noticed the work of the secretariat of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Venice_Commission" title="Venice Commission">Venice Commission</a> to prevent a legitimation of the Crimean referendum, and to expel Russia. Lavrov was "taken aback" when US President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> called Russia a "regional power". He deplored the misuse of the <a href="/wiki/Schengen_Agreement" title="Schengen Agreement">Schengen Agreement</a> to force Crimeans to visit <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> in order to gain a Schengen <a href="/wiki/Visa_(document)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visa (document)">visa</a>, and noticed that the E.U. proposes a visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens. Lavrov stated that the <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a> in Kyiv and the results of the Crimean referendum should both be accepted equally by the West. He reiterated the three-part Russian proposal for the progress of Ukraine: <ol><li>Constitutional federalism</li> <li>Recognition of linguistic minorities</li> <li>That Ukraine be a non-aligned state</li></ol> The Kyiv government on 30 March denounced Lavrov's proposals as amounting to "the complete capitulation of Ukraine, its dismemberment, and the destruction of Ukrainian statehood.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> While Lavrov acknowledged that Russia is in contact with the <a href="/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian separatist forces in Donbas">Ukrainian separatist rebels</a> he denied US and EU allegations that Moscow sponsored the rebellion and accused the United States of aggravating the conflict. "Our American colleagues still prefer to push the Ukrainian leadership toward a confrontational path." He added that chances for settling the Russo-Ukrainian war would have been higher if it only depended on Russia and Europe.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Lavrov said the separatists want to "defend their culture, their traditions, celebrate their holidays rather than anniversaries of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych" title="Roman Shukhevych">Roman Shukhevych</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stepan_Bandera" title="Stepan Bandera">Stepan Bandera</a>."<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> In June 2016, Lavrov stated that Russia will never attack any <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> country, saying: "I am convinced that all serious and honest politicians know perfectly well than Russia will never attack a member state of NATO. We have no such plans."<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-31">[31]</a> He also said: "In our security doctrine it is clearly stated that one of the main threats to our safety is the further expansion of NATO to the east."<a href="#cite_note-newsweek-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2017_North_Korea_crisis">2017 North Korea crisis</h4></div> Lavrov likened the war of words between US President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> and North Korean leader <a href="/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a> to a kindergarten fight between two children, saying "Together with China we'll continue to strive for a reasonable approach and not an emotional one like when children in a kindergarten start fighting and no-one can stop them."<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Lavrov also said that the United States would not carry out a strike on North Korea because "they know for sure – rather than suspect – that it has atomic bombs." He said the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">US invaded Iraq</a> "solely because they had 100 percent information that there were no weapons of mass destruction left there."<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="US_sanctions">US sanctions</h4></div> Lavrov criticized <a href="/wiki/US_sanctions" class="mw-redirect" title="US sanctions">US sanctions</a> against countries like <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> and Russia. In August 2018, Lavrov said, "unilateral enforcement measures are illegitimate in international affairs" [...]. "One way to counter these illegitimate barriers and restrictions is we can use national currencies on our bilateral trade". "I strongly believe that abuse of the role the U.S. dollar plays as an international currency will eventually result in its role being undermined".<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Businesses involved in <a href="/wiki/Nord_Stream_2" title="Nord Stream 2">Nord Stream 2</a> natural gas pipeline from Russia to <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> have been sanctioned by the United States with the passing of the <a href="/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act" title="National Defense Authorization Act">National Defense Authorization Act</a> for Fiscal Year 2020 on 20 December 2019.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Lavrov said that <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">US Congress</a> "is literally overwhelmed with the desire to do everything to destroy" the <a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Russia–United States relations">Russia–United States relations</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ukraine's_education_law">Ukraine's education law</h4></div> Lavrov condemned <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>'s 2017 <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Ukraine" title="Education in Ukraine">education law</a>, which makes <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> the <a href="/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine" title="Language policy in Ukraine">only language</a> of education in state schools. According to Lavrov, the "reaction of Brussels to the Ukrainian Law on Education is utterly vague although it crudely violates Kyiv's commitments on linguistic and educational rights."<a href="#cite_note-osce-38">[38]</a> Russia's Foreign Ministry stated that the law is designed to "forcefully establish a mono-ethnic language regime in a multinational state."<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Non-citizens_in_Latvia_and_Estonia">Non-citizens in Latvia and Estonia</h4></div> As early as 2011 Lavrov criticized the status of "<a href="/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)" title="Non-citizens (Latvia)">non-citizens</a>" in <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, calling the problem of Russian speaking stateless persons "shameful for the EU."<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-osce-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="NATO's_Defender-Europe_2021">NATO's Defender-Europe 2021</h4></div> In 2021, Lavrov was critical of a massive <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>-led military exercise called Defender-Europe 21,<a href="#cite_note-Defender-Europe_21-42">[42]</a> one of the largest <a href="/wiki/List_of_NATO_exercises" title="List of NATO exercises">NATO-led military exercises</a> in Europe in decades, which began in March 2021. It included "nearly simultaneous operations across more than 30 training areas" in <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> and other countries.<a href="#cite_note-Army_Times-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> He said that Russia's response was inevitable.<a href="#cite_note-Defender-Europe_21-42">[42]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Prelude_to_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_(51834238190).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4667" data-file-height="4667"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 220px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="220" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Blinken_Meets_With_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Lavrov_in_Geneva_%2851834238190%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov meets with <a href="/wiki/U.S._secretary_of_state" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. secretary of state">U.S. secretary of state</a> <a href="/wiki/Antony_Blinken" title="Antony Blinken">Antony Blinken</a> on 2 December 2021</figcaption></figure> In January 2022, the United States accused Russia of sending <a href="/wiki/Sabotage" title="Sabotage">saboteurs</a> into Ukraine to stage "a false-flag operation" that would create a pretext for Russia to invade Ukraine. Lavrov dismissed the US claim as "total disinformation".<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> On 4 February 2022, Lavrov dismissed as "nonsense" and "craziness" allegations by the United States that Russia was preparing a fake video of the Ukrainian forces attacking the separatist-held <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a> as a pretext for starting a war in Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> On 10 February 2022, Lavrov met with British Foreign Secretary <a href="/wiki/Liz_Truss" title="Liz Truss">Liz Truss</a>. In the context of tensions between Russia and the West over a build up of Russian troops near the <a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_border" title="Russia–Ukraine border">Russia–Ukraine border</a> talks between the two foreign ministers were described as "difficult". Lavrov denied that Russia has any plans to invade Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> He described Western "demands to remove Russian troops from Russian territory" as "regrettable".<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> In August 2022, 'Foreign Policy' reported Western diplomats stating that Lavrov has no real influence on Russia's foreign policy and has become a mere <a href="/wiki/Propaganda_in_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Propaganda in Russia">propagandist</a> and mouthpiece for Putin.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, foreign policy expert <a href="/wiki/Angela_Stent" title="Angela Stent">Angela Stent</a> said: "As far as we know, Lavrov himself only knew [the invasion] was happening as it was taking place."<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> According to sources close to the Kremlin, Lavrov was informed of Putin's plan to attack Ukraine at short notice before the invasion.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> On 25 February 2022, the day after Russia began an <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">invasion of Ukraine</a>, Lavrov claimed that Putin ordered the invasion to "free Ukrainians from oppression".<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> The same day, the US, UK, EU and Canada announced sanctions against Lavrov as well as Putin.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> The US added Lavrov to the <a href="/wiki/Specially_Designated_Nationals_and_Blocked_Persons_List" title="Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List">Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> On 26 February, Australia announced similar sanctions on Lavrov.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> On 1 March most diplomats at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council" title="United Nations Human Rights Council">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> (UNHRC) in Geneva staged a walkout in protest at the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Lavrov began to speak to the assembly via video from Moscow.<a href="#cite_note-ytwo-57">[57]</a> Lavrov criticized the West on some policies relating to Ukraine, denouncing his prevention on flying to Geneva due to the ban on Russian aircraft on EU airspace as "Trying to avoid a candid face-to-face dialogue or direct contacts designed to help identify political solutions to pressing international issues." He was also quoted "The West clearly has lost self-control in venting anger against Russia and has destroyed its own rules and institutions."<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> Lavrov, who read from a prepared text,<a href="#cite_note-ytwo-57">[57]</a> repeated <a href="/wiki/On_conducting_a_special_military_operation" title="On conducting a special military operation">Putin's 23 February goal statement</a>: "The goal of our actions is to save people by fulfilling our allied obligations, as well as to <a href="/wiki/Demilitarize" class="mw-redirect" title="Demilitarize">demilitarize</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denazify" class="mw-redirect" title="Denazify">denazify</a> Ukraine so that such things never happen again."<a href="#cite_note-denata-59">[59]</a> On 25 February 2022, Lavrov claimed that "available statistics confirm" that "no strikes are being made on civilian infrastructure."<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> On 2 March 2022, Lavrov explained in an interview with <a href="/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network" title="Al Jazeera Media Network">Al Jazeera</a>, Moscow, how the invasion of Ukraine came about in the context of an international crisis that already existed well before 2014. According to him, Russia had to annex the Crimea in 2014 due to the unacceptable risk that NATO naval bases would replace the Russian military port there. He primarily contests the legitimacy of the putsch against <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych" title="Viktor Yanukovych">Viktor Yanukovych</a>, who according to the Russian leadership already initiated "peace" in Ukraine, with respect to all Russian speaking minorities. He accuses the West of not supporting the special status of those minorities, before Yanukovych was deposed by the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Revolution" title="Orange Revolution">Orange Revolution</a> in 2004–2005. He continued that Zelenskyy did not improve the situation any further, and that Putin had to order the invasion of Ukraine, because the US did not comply or even address the security concerns of Russia's western flank. Lavrov claimed the US exerted similar pressures on Iraq in 2003, which the US invaded later for no reason other than "a vial of unidentified chemicals". At the same time, Lavrov tries to portray the current Ukrainian government as "nationalistic" and "right wing" because it does not incorporate historical and linguistic ties to Russia into national policies, and only excels to separate itself from a shared history and culture.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing,_2022-03-02_(15).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg/220px-Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg/220px-Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg/330px-Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg/440px-Borodianka_after_Russian_bombing%2C_2022-03-02_%2815%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>A residential building in the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Borodianka" title="Borodianka">Borodianka</a> (Kyiv Oblast) after the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Borodianka" title="Bombing of Borodianka">Russian bombing of Borodianka</a> on 2 March 2022. Lavrov claimed that Russia "did not attack Ukraine".<a href="#cite_note-Lavrov-Euronews2022-62">[62]</a></figcaption></figure> On 10 March 2022, Lavrov met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Kuleba" title="Dmytro Kuleba">Dmytro Kuleba</a> in Antalya, Turkey. Lavrov claimed that Russia "did not attack Ukraine".<a href="#cite_note-Lavrov-Euronews2022-62">[62]</a> He said without evidence that the Russian military <a href="/wiki/Mariupol_hospital_airstrike" title="Mariupol hospital airstrike">bombed the maternity hospital in Mariupol</a> because it was a base for the <a href="/wiki/Azov_Brigade" title="Azov Brigade">Azov Battalion</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> On 28 March 2022, he praised the relations between Russia and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> as the best in history.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> On 1 April 2022, he met with <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Indian Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> and said that Russia "appreciates" India's neutral position on the war in Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> On 7 April 2022, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> in New York voted to suspend Russia from the UNHRC over its behaviour in Ukraine: "93 members voted in favour of the diplomatic rebuke while 24 were against and 58 abstained. This met the required threshold of a two-thirds majority of the assembly members that vote yes or no, with abstentions not counting in the calculation." <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thomas-Greenfield" title="Linda Thomas-Greenfield">Linda Thomas-Greenfield</a> had spearheaded the effort and <a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Kuleba" title="Dmytro Kuleba">Dmytro Kuleba</a> thought it appropriate and published his thanks while UK Ambassador James Roscoe observed of the Putin administration who tried to quit the body after the fact that it sounded "like someone that's just been fired tendering their resignation."<a href="#cite_note-dstg-67">[67]</a> On 25 April, Lavrov accused NATO of fighting a <a href="/wiki/Proxy_war" title="Proxy war">proxy war</a> with Russia that could escalate into a <a href="/wiki/World_War_III" title="World War III">global conflict</a> with <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> U.S. Defense Secretary <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Austin" title="Lloyd Austin">Lloyd Austin</a> said that "it's unhelpful and dangerous to rattle sabers and speculate about the use of nuclear weapons."<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On 1 May 2022, in an interview with the Italian television broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Rete_4" title="Rete 4">Rete 4</a>,<a href="#cite_note-balmerr-70">[70]</a> Lavrov was asked why Russia claimed it needed to "denazify" Ukraine, considering the Ukrainian president himself, <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a>, is Jewish. Lavrov responded by suggesting that <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, like Zelenskyy, had Jewish heritage, saying "as to [Zelenskyy's] argument of what kind of nazification can we have if I'm Jewish, if I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, Hitler also had Jewish blood."<a href="#cite_note-rothtg-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-AP20220502-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-apntg-73">[73]</a> Lavrov elaborated "for some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemites</a> were Jewish." Israeli prime minister <a href="/wiki/Naftali_Bennett" title="Naftali Bennett">Naftali Bennett</a> condemned Lavrov's comments and said that "using <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a> of the Jewish people as a political tool must cease immediately".<a href="#cite_note-AP20220502-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> On 5 May, Bennett's office issued a statement saying: "The Prime Minister accepted President Putin's apology for Lavrov's remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust".<a href="#cite_note-tmtj-75">[75]</a> Lavrov was criticized by <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Lipstadt" title="Deborah Lipstadt">Deborah Lipstadt</a> for the remarks.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> On 14 May 2022, Lavrov used the phrase "total hybrid war" in the course of describing the West's efforts to help Ukraine combat the 2022 Russian invasion.<a href="#cite_note-lavsnyt-77">[77]</a> On 6 June 2022, according to <a href="/wiki/Ve%C4%8Dernje_novosti" title="Večernje novosti">Večernje novosti</a>, Sergey Lavrov was due to visit the Serbian capital, Belgrade. However the countries of <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro">Montenegro</a>, which surround Serbia, refused Lavrov permission to use their airspace, which led to the cancellation of the visit.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_(14-02-2022).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg/220px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg/440px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%2814-02-2022%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>In July 2022, Lavrov stated that Russia's goal was to <a href="/wiki/Regime_change" title="Regime change">overthrow</a> the pro-Western government in Ukraine,<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> but later said that <a href="/wiki/2022_Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_peace_negotiations" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations">peace</a> would only be achieved if Ukraine recognized Russia's sovereignty over the <a href="/wiki/War_of_conquest" class="mw-redirect" title="War of conquest">conquered</a> and annexed regions of Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a></figcaption></figure> On 16 June 2022, in an interview with the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Steve_Rosenberg" title="Steve Rosenberg">Steve Rosenberg</a>, Lavrov stated that Russia did not invade Ukraine, but instead "declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into Nato was a criminal act." He again repeated the Kremlin's claim that there were Nazis in Ukraine. Lavrov was also asked about a report by the United Nations on an incident involving the Russian military in <a href="/wiki/Yahidne,_Chernihiv_Oblast" title="Yahidne, Chernihiv Oblast">Yahidne</a>, Ukraine. Lavrov replied: "It's a great pity but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are being put under pressure by the West. And very often they're being used to amplify fake news spread by the West. Russia is not squeaky clean. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed of showing who we are."<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> On 8 July 2022, Lavrov left the <a href="/wiki/G20" title="G20">G20</a> summit of foreign ministers in <a href="/wiki/Bali" title="Bali">Bali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> because he disliked the questions about the invasion of Ukraine. He left when German foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Annalena_Baerbock" title="Annalena Baerbock">Annalena Baerbock</a> began her formal address. Ukraine sympathizers refused to join a group photo with Lavrov, who seemed perplexed at the criticism.<a href="#cite_note-pwg-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-dwros-83">[83]</a> On 20 July 2022, Lavrov publicly confirmed that Russia had as a goal not only to "liberate" the Donbas region, but also to occupy the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and several other territories, supposedly as a response to Ukraine receiving weapons support from abroad.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> On 26 July 2022, he said: "We are determined to help the people of eastern Ukraine to liberate themselves from the burden of this absolutely unacceptable regime,"<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> On 11 September 2022, Lavrov said that he has not given up on the idea of peace talks with Kyiv.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> According to his views, "the longer this process is delayed, the harder it will be to reach an agreement." Kyiv and Moscow have held intermittent peace talks since late February 2022, sponsored by Russia's foreign ministry.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling,_2022-10-10_(305).webp" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp/220px-Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp/220px-Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp.png" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp/330px-Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp/440px-Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28305%29.webp.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Fires on a <a href="/wiki/Cogeneration" title="Cogeneration">combined heat and power plant</a> in Kyiv after <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure">Russian missile strikes</a> on 10 October 2022. Lavrov defended Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure.<a href="#cite_note-Lavrov-aljazeera-88">[88]</a></figcaption></figure> One week before the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization" title="2022 Russian mobilization">2022 Russian mobilization</a>, Lavrov assured the Russians that there would be no mobilization or martial law.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> On 23 September 2022, Lavrov attended the annual <a href="/wiki/U.N._General_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="U.N. General Assembly">U.N. General Assembly</a> meeting in New York City, after he received permission to travel to the United States. The Russian foreign minister regretted that he was not able to attend the full presentation by U.S. Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Antony_Blinken" title="Antony Blinken">Antony Blinken</a>. Lavrov attempted to convince the audience that 'countries supplying weapons to Ukraine and training its soldiers were parties to the conflict'.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> He said that Russian-<a href="/wiki/Occupied_territories_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupied territories of Ukraine">occupied territories of Ukraine</a> would be under Russia's "full protection" if they are <a href="/wiki/2022_annexation_referenda_in_Russian-occupied_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 annexation referenda in Russian-occupied Ukraine">annexed by Russia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> Lavrov again falsely claimed that the elected government in Ukraine was illegitimately installed and filled with neo-Nazis. Ukraine's Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Kuleba" title="Dmytro Kuleba">Dmytro Kuleba</a> said Lavrov's comments about <a href="/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Russia and weapons of mass destruction">using nuclear weapons</a> were "irresponsible" and "absolutely unacceptable".<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> On 14 November, the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reported, citing Indonesia officials, that Lavrov had been admitted to hospital with a heart condition. An aide subsequently released a video on Telegram showing Lavrov laughing at such reports from his hotel in <a href="/wiki/Bali" title="Bali">Bali</a>, claiming Western media was at fault for "some kind of game".<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> On 1 December, he advocated <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure">Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure</a>, saying that "This infrastructure supports the combat capability of the Ukrainian armed forces" and that the Russian missile attacks were intended to "knock out energy facilities that allow you to keep pumping deadly weapons into Ukraine in order to kill the Russians".<a href="#cite_note-Lavrov-aljazeera-88">[88]</a> On 28 December, Lavrov stated on national television: "I am convinced that thanks to our perseverance, patience and determination, we will defend the noble goals that are vital for our people and our country". He also stated: "Our absolute priority is four new Russian regions". He also stated that <a href="/wiki/2022_Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_peace_negotiations" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations">peace talks with Ukraine</a> would only resume if it recognized the annexation of the four regions only partially occupied: "They should become free from the threat of Nazification that they have faced for many years".<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> On 4 March 2023 the BBC reported that Lavrov was ridiculed by a conference audience after a <a href="/wiki/G20" title="G20">G20</a> foreign ministers' meeting in Delhi after saying the Ukraine war was "launched against us". Lavrov claimed Russia was trying to stop the Ukraine war, which began after its own full-scale invasion in February 2022. Video footage of the incident was also published and the laughter could be heard in the audio.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> However, he received applause from a section of the audience when he criticized the US-led <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">invasion of Iraq</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> On 20 March 2023, India negated personal sanctions imposed against the <a href="/wiki/Russian_foreign_minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian foreign minister">Russian foreign minister</a> while he was welcomed by India's Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Subrahmanyam_Jaishankar" class="mw-redirect" title="Subrahmanyam Jaishankar">Subrahmanyam Jaishankar</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/G-20" class="mw-redirect" title="G-20">G-20</a> earlier that month, India attempted to resolve the conflict between the United States and Russia but conceded saying 'the gap between the countries was too much'.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> On 6 April 2023, Lavrov again visited <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> to meet his counter-part <a href="/wiki/Mevl%C3%BCt_%C3%87avu%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu" title="Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu">Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu</a>. The ministers discussed several key topics including energy, security and regional diplomacy. Turkey served as a chief broker for the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea_Grain_Initiative" title="Black Sea Grain Initiative">Black Sea Grain Initiative</a> that opened up grain shipments from Ukraine and Russia to <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Developing_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Developing world">developing world</a>. Turkey, a NATO-ally, has not imposed sanctions against Lavrov. Russia has stated that sanctions had impeded the export of Russian grain, and with the expiration of the deal, reduced Russian grain exports would accelerate inflation and food shortages. Because of intense diplomatic relations between Turkey and the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a>, a new deal would allow Ukraine to export another twenty-five million tons of grain and foodstuff to underdeveloped countries. Previously <a href="/wiki/Western_media" title="Western media">Western media</a> had accused Lavrov of obstructing Ukrainian grain shipments.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> On 7 April 2023, Lavrov said Russia rejects the "<a href="/wiki/Polarity_(international_relations)" title="Polarity (international relations)">unipolar world order</a>" led by the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and wants any <a href="/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">peace talks with Ukraine</a> to focus on creating a "<a href="/wiki/Balance_of_power_(international_relations)" title="Balance of power (international relations)">new world order</a>."<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In May 2023, Lavrov said that <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> was supporting Ukraine because today's German leaders inherited "Nazi genes".<a href="#cite_note-nazigenes-100">[100]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_(54334316072).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1234"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Rubio_Holds_a_Meeting_with_Saudi_Arabia_and_Russia_%2854334316072%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov (right) with U.S. secretary of state <a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Marco Rubio</a> and Saudi Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Faisal_bin_Farhan_Al_Saud" title="Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud">Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud</a> on 18 February 2025</figcaption></figure> In January 2024 Lavrov was quoted as saying: "Where has there been a similar turn of events before? Afghanistan. The Americans spent twenty years there. Did that period last as long as they needed or as long as it was possible? What did they accomplish there? .. Ukraine, unfortunately is doomed to the same fate, because while relying on the patron, staying unaware that the patron cares only about himself, not about you at all, you cannot expect that the interests of your people will somehow be taken into account."<a href="#cite_note-muni24-101">[101]</a> On 15 February 2024 he had a telephone conversation with the U.S. Secretary of State, <a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Marco Rubio</a>, the first contact between Russia and the U.S. at that level in almost two years. They discussed organizing initial Ukraine peace talks in <a href="/wiki/Riyadh" title="Riyadh">Riyadh</a>, Saudi Arabia, ending economic and diplomatic restrictions imposed on Russia during the previous several years, and various other issues, including the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_war" title="Gaza war">Gaza war</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023%E2%80%93present)" title="Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)">Middle East situation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> Lavrov and presidential foreign policy adviser <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Ushakov" title="Yuri Ushakov">Yuri Ushakov</a> participated in talks with the U.S. delegation led by Rubio in Saudi Arabia on 18 February 2025. The Saudi foreign minister and national security advisor were also involved. The result of their talks was an agreement to begin <a href="/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">negotiations to end the Russo-Ukrainian War</a> and to work towards normalizing relations between the U.S. and Russia.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Miscellaneous_other_business">Miscellaneous other business</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:9YAN_5350_(52766002359).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg/220px-9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1997"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 146px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg/220px-9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="146" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg/330px-9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg/440px-9YAN_5350_%2852766002359%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Meeting of <a href="/wiki/BRICS" title="BRICS">BRICS</a> (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) foreign ministers in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> on 22 September 2022</figcaption></figure> In July 2022, Lavrov visited <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Republic of the Congo">Congo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> and praised the <a href="/wiki/Neutral_country" title="Neutral country">neutral</a> position taken by <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">African</a> countries towards the war in Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> On 6 July 2022, he met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B9i_Thanh_S%C6%A1n" title="Bùi Thanh Sơn">Bùi Thanh Sơn</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a> and called <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> a "key partner" of Russia in <a href="/wiki/ASEAN" title="ASEAN">ASEAN</a>.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> On 28 July 2022, Lavrov attended the meeting of foreign ministers of the <a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation" title="Shanghai Cooperation Organisation">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation</a> (SCO). He met with Chinese Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Wang_Yi_(politician)" title="Wang Yi (politician)">Wang Yi</a> and praised the "traditional friendship" <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Russia_relations" title="China–Russia relations">between Russia and China</a>.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> He described <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> as a "friendly and longstanding partner".<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg/220px-Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1650" data-file-height="1292"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 172px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg/220px-Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="172" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg/330px-Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg/440px-Ilham_Aliyev_received_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Sergey_Lavrov_01.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov with <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijani</a> President <a href="/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev" title="Ilham Aliyev">Ilham Aliyev</a> on 27 February 2023</figcaption></figure> On 2 September 2022, Lavrov was concerned over the delay in obtaining US visas for himself and his staff for the yearly meeting of world leaders at the UNGA on 19 September. "Not a single member of the 56-member Russian advance team and delegation" had received the visas. The US protested that this was due to the expulsion of staff from its Moscow embassy.<a href="#cite_note-elstra-110">[110]</a> Lavrov backed <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> for permanent membership at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">UN Security Council</a>.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> On 23–26 January 2023, Lavrov visited <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eswatini" title="Eswatini">Swaziland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a>. On 5–9 February, he visited <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mauritania" title="Mauritania">Mauritania</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> South African Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Naledi_Pandor" title="Naledi Pandor">Naledi Pandor</a> thanked Lavrov for the "most wonderful meeting" and described Russia as a "valued partner".<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> On 10 February, Lavrov said that Western efforts to "isolate" Russia had completely failed, and that Russia was building stronger relations with countries in <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Asia-Pacific" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a>, and elsewhere.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> On 19 April 2023, Lavrov started his official tour to South and <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. His mission to these countries was initiated by a meeting with the newly elected <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_president" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian president">Brazilian president</a> <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva</a>, who announced his position to negotiate in the conflict and to lay partial blame on Ukraine for the war. Lavrov had welcomed the balanced position by Brazil.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> He continued the tour a day later to visit <a href="/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> in <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, a staunch Russian ally. Later that week, Lavrov also paid visits to Cuba and finally <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>. His encounters with politicians there were taking place in friendly manner, and highlight the economic and political alliances Russia has with those nations.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg/220px-XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1440"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 124px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg/220px-XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="124" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg/330px-XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg/440px-XV_BRICS_Summit_family_photo.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The BRICS leaders in 2023, from left to right: <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa" title="Cyril Ramaphosa">Cyril Ramaphosa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> and Sergey Lavrov (representing Vladimir Putin).</figcaption></figure> In June 2023, Lavrov took part in a <a href="/wiki/BRICS" title="BRICS">BRICS</a> Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cape Town chaired by <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> He met with <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi</a> Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Faisal_bin_Farhan_Al_Saud" title="Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud">Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud</a>, who was also in Cape Town.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> In August 2023, Lavrov attended the BRICS summit in <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> in the place of <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Russian Federation">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, who subsequently appeared via <a href="/wiki/Video_link" class="mw-redirect" title="Video link">video link</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> This was due to South Africa's membership of <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">the Hague</a>-based <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>, who <a href="/wiki/ICC_arrest_warrants_for_Vladimir_Putin_and_Maria_Lvova-Belova" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova">issued an arrest warrant</a> for Putin, as well as <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_ombudsman#Russia" title="Children's ombudsman">Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights</a> <a href="/wiki/Maria_Lvova-Belova" title="Maria Lvova-Belova">Maria Lvova-Belova</a> in March of the same year over allegations of <a href="/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Child abductions in the Russian invasion of Ukraine">forced deportations of children</a> over the course of the invasion of Ukraine.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_(2023-12-06)_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg/330px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg/440px-Vladimir_Putin_in_Abu_Dhabi_%282023-12-06%29_03.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Novak" title="Alexander Novak">Alexander Novak</a> (far left) and First Deputy Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Belousov" title="Andrey Belousov">Andrey Belousov</a> in Abu Dhabi, <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>, 6 December 2023</figcaption></figure> Lavrov condemned <a href="/wiki/2023_Hamas_attack_on_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Hamas attack on Israel">Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel</a>,<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> but also criticized <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s "indiscriminate" force and "flagrant" violations of <a href="/wiki/International_humanitarian_law" title="International humanitarian law">international humanitarian law</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a>, stating: "If Gaza is destroyed and two million inhabitants are expelled, as some politicians in Israel and abroad propose, this will create a catastrophe for many decades, if not centuries."<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> He expressed concern over the violence in the occupied <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, where "dozens of people have been killed".<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> On 28 December 2023, Lavrov praised Israeli Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> for not criticizing Russia in public statements, unlike his predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Yair_Lapid" title="Yair Lapid">Yair Lapid</a>. Lavrov also drew a parallel between Russia's goals of "demilitarization" and "denazification" of Ukraine, and Israel's stated goals of defeating <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> and extremism in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian-Chinese_negotiations_(2024).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg/220px-Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg/220px-Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg/330px-Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg/440px-Russian-Chinese_negotiations_%282024%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Lavrov and other members of the Russian delegation during Putin's <a href="/wiki/2024_visit_by_Vladimir_Putin_to_China" title="2024 visit by Vladimir Putin to China">visit to China</a> in May 2024</figcaption></figure> In June 2024, Lavrov thanked Chinese Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Wang_Yi_(politician)" title="Wang Yi (politician)">Wang Yi</a> for China's decision not to attend the <a href="/wiki/June_2024_Ukraine_peace_summit" title="June 2024 Ukraine peace summit">Ukraine peace summit</a> in Switzerland.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> In June 2024, on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers’ summit in <a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Nizhny Novgorod</a>, Russia, Lavrov held bilateral talks with the foreign ministers of <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_(3).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg/220px-Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg/220px-Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg/330px-Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg/440px-Second_day_of_16th_BRICS_Summit_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Putin, Lavrov, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi at the <a href="/wiki/16th_BRICS_summit" title="16th BRICS summit">16th BRICS summit</a> in Kazan, Russia, 23 October 2024</figcaption></figure> After the <a href="/wiki/16th_BRICS_summit" title="16th BRICS summit">16th BRICS summit</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kazan" title="Kazan">Kazan</a>, Lavrov emphasised "the need to significantly increase the share of the <a href="/wiki/Global_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Global South">Global South</a> and Global East in the mechanisms of global governance, including the UN Security Council, IMF, World Bank, and WTO."<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Lavrov speaks <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dhivehi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhivehi language">Dhivehi</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> Lavrov is a keen sportsman.<a href="#cite_note-news.bbc.co.uk-14">[14]</a> He likes to watch <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> games on television<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> and is an ardent fan of the Moscow club <a href="/wiki/FC_Spartak_Moscow" title="FC Spartak Moscow">Spartak Moscow</a>.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> He has been married since 1971 to Maria Lavrova and they have one daughter and two grandchildren.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> Their daughter Ekaterina Sergeyevna Lavrova, who lived in the US and London while her father was working for the United Nations, is a graduate of <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. Having stayed in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> until 2014, and spent a long time outside Russia, she is not fluent in Russian.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> She is married to Russian businessman <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Vinokurov_(businessman)" title="Alexander Vinokurov (businessman)">Alexander Vinokurov</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Russconnect-136">[136]</a> Lavrov has allegedly had a relationship with his mistress, Svetlana Polyakova, since the early 2000s.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-138">[138]</a> In 2016, her daughter Polina Kovaleva purchased an apartment in London's elite district of <a href="/wiki/Kensington" title="Kensington">Kensington</a> for £4.4 million in cash when she was 21 years old.<a href="#cite_note-:1-138">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-139">[139]</a><a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> She has a master's degree from <a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_London" title="Imperial College London">Imperial College London</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-139">[139]</a> On 25 March 2022, the British government sanctioned her over allegations of "dirty money" as a part of a broader sanctions regime against corrupt Russian interests following the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> in late February.<a href="#cite_note-ft20220325-141">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-msn20220325-142">[142]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Sanctions">Sanctions</h2></div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> In February, 2022, the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> placed Lavrov under personal sanctions for his role in the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> In March 2022, the UK sanctioned Lavrov's stepdaughter, Polina Kovaleva.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> In April 2022, Canada imposed sanctions against Lavrov's wife and daughter, Maria Lavrova and Ekaterina Vinokurova.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> The latter was soon included in Australia's sanction list as well.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rescinded_honorary_doctorate">Rescinded honorary doctorate</h3></div> <ul><li>Lavrov was given an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate">honorary doctorate</a> by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Troms%C3%B8" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Tromsø">University of Tromsø</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> in 2011 for his role in peacefully negotiating a maritime delimitation line between Norwegian and Russian sector of the Barents sea.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> In 2022 due to his involvement in the invasion of Ukraine and related violations of international law the degree was revoked. Lavrov is the only person to have had an honorary doctoral degree rescinded in Norway.<a href="#cite_note-khrono-149">[149]</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2></div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="755"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 162px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="162" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg/330px-RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg/440px-RIAN_archive_718298_Russian_President_Dmitry_Medvedev_bestows_state_awards_on_Russia%27s_diplomats.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarding Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_for_the_Fatherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Merit for the Fatherland">Order of Merit for the Fatherland</a>, 2nd class, July 2010</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1880" data-file-height="1160"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg/220px-Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg/330px-Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg/440px-Vladimir_Putin_and_Sergey_Lavrov_Kremlin_21_May_2015.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> and Lavrov, awarded with the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_for_the_Fatherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Merit for the Fatherland">Order of Merit for the Fatherland</a>, 1st class, May 2015</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian_Honors">Russian Honors</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hero_of_Labour_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation">Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation</a> (2020)</li> <li>First Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_for_the_Fatherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Merit for the Fatherland">Order of Merit for the Fatherland</a> (2015) ; 2nd class (2010), 3rd class (2005) and 4th class (1998)</li> <li>First Class of the Order of Sergius of Radonezh (Russia, 2015) – For his political efforts that have benefited the Russian Orthodox Church</li> <li>Medal "For his contribution to the creation of the EEU" (2015)</li> <li>Medal of the Order of Merit of the Kaliningrad region (2014)</li> <li>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Holy_Prince_Daniel_of_Moscow" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow">Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow</a> (Russian Orthodox Church, 2010)</li> <li>Honorary medal "For participation in the programs of the United Nations" (UN Association of Russia, 2005)</li> <li>Honoured Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation (2004)</li> <li>Medal of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Honour_(Russian_Federation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Honour (Russian Federation)">Order of Honour</a> (1996)</li> <li>Honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Orthodox_Palestine_Society" title="Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society">Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_honours">Foreign honours</h3></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Ribbon</th> <th>Country</th> <th>Honour</th> <th>Year </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Ribbon bar of order of St. Mesrop Mashtoc"><noscript><img alt="Ribbon bar of order of St. Mesrop Mashtoc" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png/50px-Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="21" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 21px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png/50px-Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png" data-alt="Ribbon bar of order of St. Mesrop Mashtoc" data-width="50" data-height="21" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Ribbon_bar_of_order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtoc.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Armenia</td> <td>First Class of <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Mesrop_Mashtots" title="Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots">Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots</a></td> <td>19 August 2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png" class="mw-file-description" title="By-order friendship of nations rib"><noscript><img alt="By-order friendship of nations rib" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png/50px-By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="21" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 21px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png/50px-By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png" data-alt="By-order friendship of nations rib" data-width="50" data-height="21" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/By-order_friendship_of_nations_rib.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Belarus</td> <td>Medal of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Friendship_of_Peoples_(Belarus)" title="Order of the Friendship of Peoples (Belarus)">Order of the Friendship of Peoples (Belarus)</a></td> <td>22 June 2006<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Burkina Faso Ordre national Commandeur ribbon"><noscript><img alt="Burkina Faso Ordre national Commandeur ribbon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg/50px-Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg/50px-Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg.png" data-alt="Burkina Faso Ordre national Commandeur ribbon" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg/75px-Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg/100px-Burkina_Faso_Ordre_national_Commandeur_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Burkina Faso</td> <td>Commander of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Order_of_the_Stallion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Order of the Stallion (page does not exist)">Order of the Stallion</a></td> <td>5 June 2024<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Order of Makarios III (Cyprus) - ribbon bar"><noscript><img alt="Order of Makarios III (Cyprus) - ribbon bar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg/50px-CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg/50px-CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg.png" data-alt="Order of Makarios III (Cyprus) - ribbon bar" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg/75px-CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg/100px-CYP_Order_of_Makarios_III_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Cyprus</td> <td>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Makarios_III" title="Order of Makarios III">Order of Makarios III</a></td> <td>8 September 2020<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_(civil)_2class_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 2class BAR"><noscript><img alt="HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 2class BAR" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg/50px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg/50px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg.png" data-alt="HUN Order of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 2class BAR" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg/75px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg/100px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_Rep_%28civil%29_2class_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Hungary</td> <td>Commander's Cross with Star of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Order_of_Merit" title="Hungarian Order of Merit">Hungarian Order of Merit</a></td> <td>29 November 2022 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png" class="mw-file-description" title="OrdenBars 1kl rib"><noscript><img alt="OrdenBars 1kl rib" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png/50px-OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 15px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png/50px-OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png" data-alt="OrdenBars 1kl rib" data-width="50" data-height="15" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png/75px-OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/OrdenBars_1kl_rib.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Kazakhstan</td> <td>Grand Cordon Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Leopard_(Kazakhstan)" title="Order of the Leopard (Kazakhstan)">Order of the Leopard (Kazakhstan)</a></td> <td>22 January 2021<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Order Dostik 1kl rib"><noscript><img alt="Order Dostik 1kl rib" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png/50px-Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 15px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png/50px-Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png" data-alt="Order Dostik 1kl rib" data-width="50" data-height="15" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png/75px-Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Order_Dostik_1kl_rib.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Kazakhstan</td> <td>First Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Friendship_(Kazakhstan)" title="Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)">Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)</a></td> <td>16 June 2012<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:OrdenDostik.png" class="mw-file-description" title="OrdenDostik"><noscript><img alt="OrdenDostik" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/OrdenDostik.png/50px-OrdenDostik.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="21" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 21px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/OrdenDostik.png/50px-OrdenDostik.png" data-alt="OrdenDostik" data-width="50" data-height="21" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/OrdenDostik.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Kazakhstan</td> <td>Second Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Friendship_(Kazakhstan)" title="Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)">Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)</a></td> <td>2005 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:KRG_Order_Danaker.png" class="mw-file-description" title="KRG Order Danaker"><noscript><img alt="KRG Order Danaker" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/KRG_Order_Danaker.png/50px-KRG_Order_Danaker.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/KRG_Order_Danaker.png/50px-KRG_Order_Danaker.png" data-alt="KRG Order Danaker" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/KRG_Order_Danaker.png/75px-KRG_Order_Danaker.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/KRG_Order_Danaker.png/100px-KRG_Order_Danaker.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Kyrgyzstan</td> <td>Medal of the Order Danaker</td> <td>17 June 2017<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Civil_Merit_(Laos).gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Order of Civil Merit (Laos)"><noscript><img alt="Order of Civil Merit (Laos)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif/50px-Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif" decoding="async" width="50" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="153" data-file-height="45"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 15px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif/50px-Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif" data-alt="Order of Civil Merit (Laos)" data-width="50" data-height="15" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif/75px-Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif/100px-Order_of_Civil_Merit_%28Laos%29.gif 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Laos</td> <td>Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Civic_Merit_of_Laos" title="Order of Civic Merit of Laos">Order of Civic Merit of Laos</a></td> <td>2008 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description" title="MLI National Order - Commander BAR"><noscript><img alt="MLI National Order - Commander BAR" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png/50px-MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png/50px-MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png" data-alt="MLI National Order - Commander BAR" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png/75px-MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png/100px-MLI_National_Order_-_Commander_BAR.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Mali</td> <td>Commander of the <a href="/wiki/National_Order_of_Mali" title="National Order of Mali">National Order of Mali</a></td> <td>7 February 2023<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description" title="PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Cross BAR"><noscript><img alt="PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Cross BAR" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png/50px-PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png/50px-PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png" data-alt="PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Cross BAR" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png/75px-PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png/100px-PER_Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Peru</td> <td>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Sun_of_Peru" title="Order of the Sun of Peru">Order of the Sun of Peru</a></td> <td>11 September 2007<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="BIH Order of the Republic of Srpska sash ribbon"><noscript><img alt="BIH Order of the Republic of Srpska sash ribbon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg/50px-BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg/50px-BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg.png" data-alt="BIH Order of the Republic of Srpska sash ribbon" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg/75px-BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg/100px-BIH_Order_of_the_Republic_of_Srpska_sash_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Republika Srpska</td> <td>Collar of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Republika_Srpska" title="Order of the Republika Srpska">Order of the Republika Srpska</a></td> <td>28 September 2018<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:SMR_Order_of_Saint_Agatha_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description" title="SMR Order of Saint Agatha - Grand Cross BAR"><noscript><img alt="SMR Order of Saint Agatha - Grand Cross BAR" 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<td>Knight of Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Agatha" title="Order of Saint Agatha">Order of Saint Agatha</a></td> <td>22 March 2018 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Orden Srpske Zastave"><noscript><img alt="Orden Srpske Zastave" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif/50px-Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif/50px-Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif" data-alt="Orden Srpske Zastave" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif/75px-Orden_Srpske_Zastave.gif 1.5x, 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Sash ribbon or First Class"><noscript><img alt="Order of the Union. Sash ribbon or First Class" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg/50px-Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 14px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg/50px-Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg.png" data-alt="Order of the Union. Sash ribbon or First Class" data-width="50" data-height="14" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg/75px-Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg/100px-Ribbon_bar_of_the_Order_of_the_Union_%28United_Arab_Emirates%29.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>United Arab Emirates</td> <td>Collar of the Order of Etihad (Order of the Union)</td> <td>9 March 2021<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Dustlik_rib.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Dustlik rib"><noscript><img alt="Dustlik rib" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Dustlik_rib.png/50px-Dustlik_rib.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="30"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 15px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Dustlik_rib.png/50px-Dustlik_rib.png" data-alt="Dustlik rib" data-width="50" data-height="15" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Dustlik_rib.png/75px-Dustlik_rib.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Dustlik_rib.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Uzbekistan</td> <td>Medal of the Order of Friendship</td> <td>28 March 2020<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Friendship Order ribbon bar"><noscript><img alt="Friendship Order ribbon bar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg/50px-Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="140" data-file-height="42"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 50px;height: 15px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg/50px-Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg.png" data-alt="Friendship Order ribbon bar" data-width="50" data-height="15" data-mw-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg/75px-Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg/100px-Friendship_Order_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></td> <td>Vietnam</td> <td>Medal of the <a href="/wiki/Friendship_Order" title="Friendship Order">Friendship Order</a></td> <td>25 July 2009 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Distinctions">Distinctions</h3></div> <ul><li>Honorary Doctorate in Diplomacy from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Piraeus" title="University of Piraeus">University of Piraeus</a> (2016).<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a></li> <li>Honorary degree from <a href="/wiki/Yerevan_State_University" title="Yerevan State University">Yerevan State University</a>.</li> <li>Honorary degree from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Troms%C3%B8" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Tromsø">University of Tromsø</a>.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Лавров Сергей Викторович – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Лавров Сергей Викторович" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%9E%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%9E" title="Сяргей Віктаравіч Лаўроў – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сяргей Віктаравіч Лаўроў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергей Лавров – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сергей Лавров" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serguei_Lavrov" title="Serguei Lavrov – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Serguei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Wiktorowitsch_Lawrow" title="Sergei Wiktorowitsch Lawrow – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sergei Wiktorowitsch Lawrow" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" title="Sergei Lavrov – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sergei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%B9_%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B2%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%86" title="Σεργκέι Λαβρόφ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σεργκέι Λαβρόφ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergu%C3%A9i_Lavrov" title="Serguéi Lavrov – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Serguéi Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" title="Sergei Lavrov – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sergei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81" title="سرگئی لاوروف – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سرگئی لاوروف" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergue%C3%AF_Lavrov" title="Sergueï Lavrov – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sergueï Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergu%C3%A9i_Lavrov" title="Serguéi Lavrov – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Serguéi Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%B8%EB%A5%B4%EA%B2%8C%EC%9D%B4_%EB%9D%BC%EB%B8%8C%EB%A1%9C%ED%94%84" title="세르게이 라브로프 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="세르게이 라브로프" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%BE%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BE" title="Սերգեյ Լավրով – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սերգեյ Լավրով" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5" title="सर्गेई लावरोव – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सर्गेई लावरोव" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Viktorovi%C4%8D_Lavrov" title="Sergej Viktorovič Lavrov – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sergej Viktorovič Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91" title="סרגיי לברוב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סרגיי לברוב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="სერგეი ლავროვი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სერგეი ლავროვი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергей Викторович Лавров – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Сергей Викторович Лавров" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%B5%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%81_%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%9A%E0%BA%A3%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%9A" title="ເຊີເກ ລາບຣົບ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ເຊີເກ ລາບຣົບ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_Lavrov" title="Sergius Lavrov – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Sergius Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergejs_Lavrovs" title="Sergejs Lavrovs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sergejs Lavrovs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Wiktorowitsch_Lawrow" title="Sergei Wiktorowitsch Lawrow – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Sergei Wiktorowitsch Lawrow" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergejus_Lavrovas" title="Sergejus Lavrovas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sergejus Lavrovas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szergej_Viktorovics_Lavrov" title="Szergej Viktorovics Lavrov – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Szergej Viktorovics Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%98_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергеј Лавров – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сергеј Лавров" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%A4" title="سيرجى لاڤروڤ – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سيرجى لاڤروڤ" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81" title="سرگئی لاوروف – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="سرگئی لاوروف" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергей Лавров – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Сергей Лавров" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AD" title="सेर्गेई लाभ्रोभ – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="सेर्गेई लाभ्रोभ" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95" title="セルゲイ・ラブロフ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="セルゲイ・ラブロフ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Лавров, Сергей Викторович – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Лавров, Сергей Викторович" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" title="Sergei Lavrov – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Sergei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siergiej_%C5%81awrow" title="Siergiej Ławrow – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Siergiej Ławrow" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serghei_Lavrov" title="Serghei Lavrov – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Serghei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serguey_Lavrov" title="Serguey Lavrov – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Serguey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Лавров, Сергей Викторович – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Лавров, Сергей Викторович" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" title="Sergei Lavrov – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Sergei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serghei_Lavrov" title="Serghei Lavrov – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Serghei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Viktorovi%C4%8D_Lavrov" title="Sergej Viktorovič Lavrov – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Sergej Viktorovič Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8E%D8%B1%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D8%B1%DB%86%DA%A4" title="سێرگی لاڤرۆڤ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="سێرگی لاڤرۆڤ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%98_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергеј Лавров – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Сергеј Лавров" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lavrov" title="Sergei Lavrov – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sergei Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergej_Lavrov" title="Sergej Lavrov – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Sergej Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_(1950)" title="Сергей Лавров (1950) – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Сергей Лавров (1950)" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F" title="เซียร์เกย์ ลัฟรอฟ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เซียร์เกย์ ลัฟรอฟ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Сергей Лавров – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Сергей Лавров" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Sergey Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Лавров Сергій Вікторович – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Лавров Сергій Вікторович" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81" title="سرگئی لاوروف – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="سرگئی لاوروف" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrov_Sergei" title="Lavrov Sergei – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Lavrov Sergei" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vepsän kel’</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Viktorovich_Lavrov" title="Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%A2%E5%B0%94%E7%9B%96%C2%B7%E7%BB%B4%E5%85%8B%E6%89%98%E7%BD%97%E7%BB%B4%E5%A5%87%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E5%A4%AB%E7%BD%97%E5%A4%AB" title="谢尔盖·维克托罗维奇·拉夫罗夫 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="谢尔盖·维克托罗维奇·拉夫罗夫" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B0%A2%E5%B0%94%E7%9B%96%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E5%A4%AB%E7%BD%97%E5%A4%AB" title="谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">中文</a></li></ul> </section> </div> <div class="minerva-footer-logo"><img 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