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Sergey Lavrov
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“Well I believe all participants of the six party talks should use their bilateral channels to send necessary messages to North Koreans. Some of us like China and Russia have more channels if you wish. Japan and South Korea have their own. And the United States could also help by stating their strong commitment to the negotiating process, to the six party talks, and I am glad that that's what we hear from Washington in response to the North Korean announcement.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Transcript, February (2005)
“There was an attack on our citizens in South Ossetia since most people had a Russian passport and thus Russian citizenship.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking about the Georgian War(2008), he also adds that Georgia also attacked Russian peacekeepers who were located there
“Ha! I’ve heard about these reports. I think it’s another provocation, coming just before NATO war games on Georgian territory that were in complete disregard of Russia’s warnings. If this is aimed at drawing other participants of the war games into the conflict — prompted by statements from the Georgian government — then this only proves that we were 100% right when we warned those taking part in the war games not to do so as it will lead heighten tensions sharply.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding the reported coup in Georgia. Interview with Euronews (May 2009)
“Instead of the negative and relative stability of Cold War times, we all need positive stability based on collective interaction, an indifferently correct neighborhood is impossible on our continent. The principle of indivisibility of European security should be legally binding, relations between the US, Europe and Russia need a qualitatively new interaction that could help solve common and global challenges.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In his speech from April 2010
“We believe that the coalition's intervention in the civil war in Libya has not, essentially, been sanctioned by the UN Security Council resolution, its only purpose is to ensure the protection of the civilian population.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Intervention in Libya at odds with UN resolution (March 2011)
“We think that additional steps, including the cancellation of the no-fly zone, should be taken.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time to abolish no-fly zone over Libya, (September 2011).
“Members of the international community, first of all our Western partners, have chosen the path of supporting one of the sides in the civil war – probably the party that represented the Libyan people's legitimate aspirations, but this still increased the number of casualties among the civilian population.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saying that NATO's interference in Libya caused more casualties {December 2011)
“It is no accident that the Office of UN High Commissioner on Human Rights stated today that all circumstances of his (Gaddafi's) death must be investigated and I fully agree that such an investigation will be conducted.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: He said that Muammar Gaddafi's death should be investigated, as he shouldn't have been killed, (October 2011)
“If something goes wrong in Syria, many countries of the region will feel a negative impact. We can’t support isolation because of the lesson we drew from Libya.”
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Recorded in: We won’t let Syria become 2nd Libya"(November 2011)
“We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen.”
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Recorded in: Lavrov warns any attack on Iran, whether by Israel or any other, (November 2011)
“As the Libyan experience has shown, sadly, a military scenario is possible. We won’t allow any more such disingenuous interpretations. We will see to it that no resolution is open to interpretation like the one on Libya.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moscow to Block Any Bid for Force Against Iran, October 2012
“Absolutely no evidence.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked if Iran has decided to include a military component in its nuclear program, (October 2012).
“We discussed this issue. We welcome steps Pakistan and India have taken on confidence-building measures. Both countries are capable of settling their issues on their own without any foreign assistance”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lavrov says no to Russian role in resolving Kashmir issue, (October 2012).
“Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them [have] never left the United States. They live in their own walls. So I’m not amazed about this Russophobia which is being displayed by the Congress at the moment.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says 80% of U.S. lawmakers have never traveled abroad", Politfact, 17 December 2014
“As for some UN experts conducting some kind of research about the alleged crimes of the Wagner private military company, I am not aware of any UN experts being empowered to consider any aspect of war crimes, no matter who committed them.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lavrov Says UN Experts Not Empowered To Investigate Wagner's Alleged War Crimes In Mali", UrduPoint, 7 February 2023
“We have absolutely no intention of — or interest in — crossing Ukraine's borders.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russia Says It Doesn't Plan To Invade Ukraine", NPR, 29 March 2014
“We see that our colleagues from the NATO countries are pursuing a policy of containing Russia, increasing their military activity on our borders, creating a military infrastructure on the “eastern front”, as they say, and resorting to unsubstantiated accusations instead of diplomatic methods...”
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“It is also alarming that our Western colleagues use the term “international law” less and less often. Instead, they talk more about a rules-based order... something they can invent themselves... We urge our colleagues to comply with the agreements reached within the framework of international law.”
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“Several years ago, the United States started accusing Russia of violating the INF Treaty, without providing any evidence. We basically had to pry the information from the US, information that would help us understand... what they meant. The US eventually mentioned the 9M729 missile, claiming that it had been tested on certain days at a certain testing site, and that the range violated the treaty’s provisions. Our data concerning these tests showed the opposite. The missile’s range is allowed under the treaty.”
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“The people I met with yesterday, including German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, expressed concern about this situation. If they are concerned, they should talk to their ally, the United States, and have the US sit down and talk substantively, rather than accuse us without any grounds from across the ocean. We are ready for such a dialogue and suggested considering the INF Treaty at the Russia-NATO Council. In response, our NATO colleagues completely blocked all communication channels between the Russian and NATO military...”
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“In 2014, our Western colleagues “swallowed” the anti-constitutional armed coup in Ukraine, and since then they’ve been unable to hold that government accountable, although they have long since understood who they are dealing with. Having once branded them democrats and partners, they cannot publicly criticise them now. That's the problem.”
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“President Poroshenko and his regime enjoy impunity and plan provocations like the one that occurred at the entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. Literally a day after this blatant provocation, the text of the order...was found on one of the boats... It said that the boats should covertly, without requesting authorisation of the Russian authorities...Why?...There may only be one answer: they wanted to provoke a scandal.”
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“A day after that, President Poroshenko declared martial law, and three days later the US declared that they need to increase their military presence in the Black Sea.... an incident was inflated into a scandal... used to shore up the absolutely groundless hopes of the incumbent president of Ukraine... in line with the US plans to build up its military presence near our shores. If you follow the logic of “who stands to gain?” you can draw your own conclusions.”
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“What do they mean by insolent remarks that the countries external to the Western Hemisphere are not allowed to have any interests there?... Take a look at the map of the U.S. military bases—the whole world is dotted with red spots and each of them poses rather serious risks.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Common Dreams, Rejecting Demand to Leave Venezuela, Russia's Lavrov Says 'Whole World Dotted' With US Soldiers, Eoin Higgins, (4 April 2019)
“In a number of Western countries, students learn at school that Jesus Christ was bisexual.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Lavrov's opinion piece titled "The Law, Rights, and the Rules" published in "Russia in Global Affairs" on 28 June 2021Russian media identified the likely source of this claim to a single TikTok video where an Austr…
“We know the manners and the tricks that are being used by the western countries to manipulate media, we understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent western media”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian foreign minister praises Fox News coverage of war in Ukraine (Fri 18 Mar 2022)
“Any human life is priceless.”
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“Our military personnel who are now involved in this special operation have a very strict order to only use high precision military equipment to suppress the military infrastructure.”
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“The questions I receive are as if no one listens.”
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Recorded in: ‘You’re being emotional’: What happened when I asked Sergei Lavrov about the blood on his hands", Independent, 3 March 2022
“We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn’t attack Ukraine in the first place.”
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Recorded in: Kremlin’s Lavrov Somehow Manages to Say ‘We Didn’t Attack Ukraine’ With Straight Face", The Daily Beast, 10 March 2022
“With Ukraine... we didn't just get up and go to war against Ukraine [just because] we didn't like Zelenskyy, or because he stopped appearing in KVN [a Russian and formerly Soviet comedy TV show and international competition] and stopped maintaining his theatre, Kvartal 95 [a publicly owned television production company founded by Volodymyr Zelenskyy]. It was for a reason; we warned [Ukraine] for many, many, many years.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian Foreign Minister openly admits that his country 'went to war against Ukraine'", Yahoo News, 1 December 2022
“We see how dangerously our Western colleagues, including in the European Union, are acting now, which, in violation of all its so-called principles and values, encourages the supply of deadly weapons to Ukraine.”
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Recorded in: Fury as Lavrov brands outcry over maternity unit strike which killed three as 'pathetic'", LBC, 10 March 2022
“It is not the first time we have seen pathetic outcries concerning the so-called atrocities perpetrated by the Russian military”
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Recorded in: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claims Russia ‘didn’t attack Ukraine’", New York Post, 10 March 2022
“We will deal with Ukraine and we will resolve the future of Ukraine.”
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“We proposed not creating any threat on the ground and Putin explained very clearly why he took the decision to conduct this special military operation.”
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Recorded in: 'Why should we believe you?' Sky News reporter brutally confronts Lavrov over vile attack", Express, 11 March 2022
“So when they say ‘How can Nazification exist if we’re Jewish?’ In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest antisemites were Jewish.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov's Nazism remarks", Spectrum News 1 / Associated Press, 2 May 2022
“If you are worried about the prospect of war in Europe - we do not want that at all.”
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Recorded in: Lavrov Says Russia Does Not Want War in Europe", US News/Reuters, 11 May 2022
“The EU has evolved from a constructive economic platform, as it was created, to an aggressive and belligerent player which already displays its ambitions far beyond the European continent.”
Sergey Lavrov (born 1950) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU has become aggressive and bellicose amid Ukraine war, says Russia's Lavrov", Euronews, 13 May 2022
“The West has declared war on us, on the whole Russian world. The culture of canceling Russia and everything connected with our country is already reaching the point of absurdity.”
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“It is safe to say that this situation will be with us for a long time.”
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“In many Western countries, everyday Russophobia has become of an unprecedented nature, and, to our great regret, is encouraged by government circles in a number of countries.”
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Recorded in: West has declared ‘total war’ on Russia: Lavrov", Hurriyet Daily news, 27 May 2022
“International officials, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and, to my great regret, the UN Secretary-General and many other UN representatives, are subjected to pressure from the West and often act as mouthpieces for fake news.”
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Recorded in: Claimed, without providing evidence, quoted in "Lavrov: UN Officials Act As 'mouthpieces For Fake News' On Russia Due To West's Pressure", Republic World, 17 June 2022
“We did not invade Ukraine. We 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.”
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Recorded in: Russia has ‘strategically lost’ war, says UK defence chief, as Lavrov says Moscow unashamed", The Guardian, 17 June 2022
“Russia has an unblemished reputation and is not ashamed.”
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Recorded in: Lavrov told the BBC: Russia is Not Ashamed", Novinie, 17 June 2022
“The Russian people in Ukraine continued to be discriminated against across the board. Laws banning the Russian language were adopted and Nazi practices (theory and practice of Nazism) were established.”
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Recorded in: Claimed without providing evidence, quoted in "Ukraine adopted 'laws banning the Russian language': False", Politfact, 8 June 2022
“I didn’t invite anyone to pose for a photo together with me.”
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Recorded in: Said after several G20 representatives refused to join a group photo session together with Lavrov, quoted in "Vladimir Putin lackey Sergey Lavrov storms out of G20 after photo snub", New York Post, 8 July 2022
“The geography is different. This is far from being only the DPR and LPR. It is also the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories, and this process continues, and continues consistently and persistently.”
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“We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelenskyy, or whoever replaces him, will control to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those republics that have declared their independence, those who want to determine their future on their own.”
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“If the West delivers long-range weapons to Kyiv, the geographic goals of the special operation in Ukraine will expand even more.”
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Recorded in: Said about changing Russian goals to attack and occupy larger parts of Ukraine, quoted in "West giving arms to Ukraine will expand Russian aims: Russia", Anadolu Agency, 20 July 2022 and "Russian FM Lavrov Says Moscow's…
“We are determined to help the people of eastern Ukraine to liberate themselves from the burden of this absolutely unacceptable regime.”
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