Human rights should not be used for changing legitimate governments, Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday before Minister Sergei Lavrov's attending the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
Russian-Egyptian talks on regional and international issues are becoming particularly important, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, opening a meeting with visiting Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy here on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet his (Persian) Gulf Arab counterparts on February 18 for talks expected to focus on the Syria conflict, a Kuwaiti official has said.
Russia is prepared to consider a new resolution on Syria by the U.N. Security Council, if it meets principles of international humanitarian law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with Algerian counterpart Ramtan Lamamra here on Tuesday.
Syria's opposition leader met Russia's top diplomat on Tuesday in a bid to persuade Moscow to pressure Damascus to agree to a transitional government for the war-scarred nation.
Russia believes that emergence of new military world powers is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference reviewing the results of 2013 here on
Tuesday.
All effective contracts between Russia and Syria, including those in the sphere of military-technical cooperation are being honoured, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
The process of eliminating Syria's chemical weapons runs at full speed in compliance with the schedule, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Federation Council meeting
on Wednesday.
Moscow does not doubt the large-scale rallies in Ukraine have been staged long beforehand, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was hopeful to discuss with Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman key regional and international issues.
Russia to further provide
humanitarian aid to Syria through international organisations and in the
bilateral format, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Russia-NATO partnership remains a key element of security in the Euro-Atlantic region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday, opening a ministerial of
the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) in which RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is taking part.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is sure the agreements reached in Geneva between Iran and the Sextet remove the risks related to proliferation of the mass destruction weapons in the Iranian nuclear programme.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will have a pre-planned meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry, a source in the Russian delegation said on Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton discussed on Friday evening in Geneva ways to achieve a mutually acceptable agreement between the Sextet and Iran, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.