"Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov" is a Russian diplomat, who has been the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004. His nomination to the Foreign Minister's office was approved by two President of Russia/Russian presidents, in 2008 by Dmitry Medvedev and in 2012 by Vladimir Putin.

Prior to that, Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat and Russia's ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. Besides his native Russian, Lavrov speaks English language/English, French language/French, and Sinhala language/Sinhala.

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We do not agree that this matter should be sent to the Security Council.

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Without referring this issue to other organizations.

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If our Israeli friends have this information, if they have these facts, we would be the first interested to find out about it, ... We are taking this very seriously and would be the last one to be lenient about violations of the nonproliferation regime.

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We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now.

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How many people must be killed. How many countries must be destabilized to punish that one person?

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As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that.

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We have to wait until three presidents discuss the final text which is on the table, and as far as I am concerned I cannot vote tonight (Wednesday) until I hear from my president.

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Documents that were shown to us were forged on a number of occasions.

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Must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

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