Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Серге́й Ви́кторович Лавро́в, pronounced [sʲɪrˈgʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ lɐvˈrof]; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004. From 1994 to 2004, Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat, and the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.

Sergey Lavrov
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 March 2004
Prime Minister	Mikhail Fradkov Viktor Zubkov Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Mikhail Mishustin
Preceded by	Igor Ivanov
Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations
In office 22 September 1994 – 12 July 2004
President	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Yuli Vorontsov
Succeeded by	Andrey Denisov
Personal details
Born	(1950-03-21) 21 March 1950 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political party	United Russia
Spouse(s)	Maria Lavrova
Children	Ekaterina
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
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Sergey Lavrov Media

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  Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, 17 September 2004

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  Lavrov Meets with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 March 2006

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  Lavrov Meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 May 2009

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  Lavrov with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko in Kyiv, 10 April 2010

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  Lavrov with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Munich, Germany, on 5 February 2011

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  Lavrov in Maribor, Slovenia, during the opening ceremony for a museum commemorating the Soviet soldiers who died in Nazi captivity, 8 July 2014

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  US Secretary of State John Kerry and Lavrov before a bilateral meeting in Moscow, on 24 March 2016

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  Putin, Lavrov and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 2016 SCO Summit

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  Lavrov meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, 10 May 2017

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  Putin, Lavrov, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the World Holocaust Forum, 23 January 2020