Quotes About Sergei Lavrov

If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.

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 Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement.

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.