Topic: Sergei Lavrov

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The good news for Israel is that its outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has won assurances from Russia that it isn't going to sell advanced anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems to Iran.

TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Russia says it has completed its withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone near South Ossetia on Wednesday, an official said.

MOSCOW, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry Monday accused political forces in Georgia of trying to provoke a new armed conflict.

MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The foreign minister of Russia has called for an international effort to halt pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Russia's foreign minister said Monday his country's sale of weapons to Syria won't upset the balance of power in the Middle East.

Gazprom to build in North Korea; Iran proposes IPI price mechanism; hopes for Nabucco high; politics, supplies haunt Odessa-Brody; Balkans call for energy security.

NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that despite recent strains, relations between Russia and NATO have not been entirely frozen.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom said it may be interested in joining development of the $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council and Germany have agreed on a U.N. resolution calling on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, diplomatic officials said.

MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's decision to deploy 10 Ground-based Mid-course Interceptors -- GBIs -- in Poland will expose the real interim and end goals of its plans for a global anti-ballistic missile -- ABM -- system, which Washington started creating after it withdrew from the Soviet-American 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty in 2002.