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" Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences. "
Sergei Lavrov
Experience
Either
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" You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.' "
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You
" We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population. "
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" If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action. "
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Action
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Remember
" We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region. "
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Believe
Bring
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" If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress. "
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" Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. "
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Justice
Pressure
" The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya. "
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Community
Sides
Never
" Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations. "
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Reason
Interests
Legal
" I don't believe in ideology in international relations. "
Sergei Lavrov
International
Ideology
Believe
" We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria. "
Sergei Lavrov
Syria
Only
Secular
" There's no room for petty grievances in politics. "
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Room
Politics
Petty
" If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow. "
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Say
Respect
Law
" When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya. "
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Air Force
Security
Ground
" Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds. "
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Christian
Orthodox
Other
" Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. "
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Interests
Right
Washington
" Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements. "
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Reach
Become
Above
" Russia and the U.S. have unique experience in ensuring the safety and security of nuclear material. "
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Unique
Security
Safety
" Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers. "
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Georgia
Military
Attack
" We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. "
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Law
Transit
Training
" The struggle against terrorists in the territory of Syria should be structured in cooperation with the Syrian government, which clearly stated its readiness to join it. "
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Cooperation
Join
Struggle
" We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth. "
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Food
Early
Know
" Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries. "
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Better
Most
" When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures? "
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Yourself
Because
Company
" Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power? "
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States
Assembly
Power
" We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement. "
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Development
Way
Fairness
" When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get. "
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You
Civil War
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" Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements. "
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Language
Principles
" You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State. "
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Only
You
Powerful
" Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms. "
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International
Ukraine
Sense