Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Our stand is crystal-clear - we want peace in Ukraine, which can only be attained through broad national dialogue in which all… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia,… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends,… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia, for example,… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share
