Sergei Lavrov

India-US ties not criteria for India-Russia relations: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov

September 28, 2025 11:50 am

Lavrov, who addressed the UN General Assembly shortly before External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's speech at the high-level General Debate, said India and Russia share a "particularly privileged strategic partnership".

'No intent to attack Europe or NATO states': Russia tells UN aggression will get a 'decisive response'

September 28, 2025 5:13 am

During his wide-ranging speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, Lavrov said that threats against Russia on behalf of Western nations have become “increasingly common”.

Russia will abandon its unilateral missile moratorium, Lavrov says

December 29, 2024 7:39 pm

Trump in 2018 said he wanted to terminate the INF Treaty because of what he said were years of Russian violations and his concerns about China’s intermediate-range missile arsenal.

Jaishankar meets Lavrov in Jakarta

September 06, 2023 11:28 pm

“Mutual intent to increase coordination in multilateral formats, primarily at the UN as well as within the SCO, BRICS and the G20 platforms, was emphasized,” the statement said.

Blinken, Lavrov speak amid war of words over Ukraine at G20 meet

March 02, 2023 6:51 pm

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a brief encounter on the sidelines of the meeting during which Blinken urged Russia to reverse its decision on the New START nuclear treaty, a senior US official said.

Russia's foreign minister Lavrov to meet military leader on visit to Myanmar: Russian news agency

August 03, 2022 8:06 am

Russia had supplied the junta with drones, two types of fighter jets, and two kinds of armoured vehicles, one with air defence systems, Thomas Andrews, the United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar, said in February.

Israel demands apology after Russia says Hitler had Jewish roots

May 03, 2022 9:22 am

Leaders from several Western nations denounced the foreign minister's comments and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of having forgotten the lessons of World War Two.

US criticises India on Russia talks as Lavrov visits Delhi

March 31, 2022 8:47 pm

India’s middle-ground position on the war has left to a raft of diplomacy in the past few weeks, with China’s foreign minister visiting for the first time since 2019 and now Lavrov seeking to shore up support.

Russia urges Pakistan foreign minister to resolve issues with India bilaterally

August 15, 2019 6:54 am

A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said that Moscow “emphasised the need for de-escalation of tensions, and that there is no alternative to resolve differences between Pakistan and India except bilaterally through political and diplomatic means.”

Mike Pompeo, Russia's Lavrov see hope for improved US-Russia ties

May 14, 2019 8:35 pm

Both Pompeo and Lavrov smiled and appeared to be at ease when they greeted each other in the Black Sea city of Sochi, with the secretary of state telling his Russian counterpart ``Great to see you again!"

Switzerland: Lavrov and Ban Ki-moon arrive for meeting on UNHRC sidelines

March 01, 2016 5:19 pm