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This document will seal the political understanding that we have reached
UPI Energy Watch Feb 13, 2008
We are exceptionally interested in this and we would like to render assistance to friendly Iraq
UPI Energy Watch Feb 13, 2008
We are hoping to launch promising joint projects, first of all, in the oil and gas sector and in the electric power industry. Our energy specialists have long been working in difficult conditions in Iraq, for instance, in Baghdad, Basra and Nasiriyah
UPI Energy Watch Feb 13, 2008
We hope that launching the Sakhalin projects in full and completing the construction of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean export pipeline will help ensure energy security in the Asia-Pacific region
Russia: Sakhalin would aid Asia-Pacific Aug 02, 2007
I can't imagine a situation where the Security Council will approve such a resolution
Russia: No independence for Kosovo May 31, 2007
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Серге́й Ви́кторович Лавро́в, born 21 March 1950) is the Foreign Minister of Russia. Prior to that, Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat and Russia's ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. Lavrov speaks Russian, English, French and Sinhala.
Lavrov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and Russian mother from Georgia. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) 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 Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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, December 2000, April 2002, and June 2003.