Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Серге́й Ви́кторович Лавро́в, born March 21, 1950, in Moscow) is the Foreign Minister of Russia.

Lavrov speaks Russian, English, French and Sinhala, which he learned while in Sri Lanka. He plays guitar, writes poetry and rafts.

Russia-Sri Lanka diplomacy

Lavrov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1972. He was sent as a Soviet diplomat to Sri Lanka, where he worked until 1976. He then returned to Moscow and worked in the main office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^{[citation needed]}

Ambassador to the United Nations

In 1981, he was sent as a senior adviser to the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, and worked there until 1988. He worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1994, when he returned to work in the United Nations, this time as the Permanent Representative of Russia. While in the latter position, he was President of the United Nations Security Council in December 1995, June 1997, July 1998, October 1999,^[1] December 2000, April 2002, and June 2003.^[2]

Foreign Ministership

On March 9, 2004, President Vladimir Putin appointed Lavrov to the post of Minister for Foreign Affairs. He succeeded Igor Ivanov in the post.

Lavrov is considered to continue the style of his predecessor: a brilliant diplomat but rather a civil servant than a politician, Russia's foreign policy being largely determined by the President of the Russian Federation.

References

External links

• (English) Biography of Lavrov on the Department of Foreign Affairs site
• (Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
• (Russian) Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Quartet on the Middle East
Negotiating parties	Israel ·  Palestinian Authority
Diplomatic quartet	European Union (Solana) ·  Russia (Lavrov)  ·  United Nations (Ban) ·  United States (Rice)
Special Envoy	Tony Blair

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