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" We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. "
Sergei Lavrov
Power
Military
New
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" We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation. "
Sergei Lavrov
Cooperation
Isolation
Feel
" Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations. "
Sergei Lavrov
Reason
Interests
Legal
" 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? "
Sergei Lavrov
Yourself
Because
Company
" Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law. "
Sergei Lavrov
Peace
Law
Security
" Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences. "
Sergei Lavrov
Experience
Either
Crisis
" 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. "
Sergei Lavrov
Say
Respect
Law
" Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices. "
Sergei Lavrov
Done
Country
Support
" 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. "
Sergei Lavrov
Believe
Bring
Together
" The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups. "
Sergei Lavrov
You
United States
Fighting
" 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. "
Sergei Lavrov
Law
Transit
Training
" The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad. "
Sergei Lavrov
Law
Democracy
Good
" Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts. "
Sergei Lavrov
Facts
Efforts
Partnerships
" With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way. "
Sergei Lavrov
Mistake
Way
Expansion
" In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control. "
Sergei Lavrov
Spirit
Control
Commitment
" Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed. "
Sergei Lavrov
Succeed
Our
Relationship
" I hope that the United States would cooperate with the partners to reduce its debt. The debt is a problem. The debt is with you, but unfortunately, the debt is not only with you but with us and with the rest of the world because we all, one way or another, are dependent on the dollar. "
Sergei Lavrov
Debt
You
Rest
" I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide. "
Sergei Lavrov
Decide
Say
Only
" I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues. "
Sergei Lavrov
Resolve
Judge
Hope
" Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by both Georgia and South Ossetians. The statement that could have averted bloodshed was blocked by western countries. "
Sergei Lavrov
Security
United Nations
Working
" I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work. "
Sergei Lavrov
Work
Say
Personal
" Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine. "
Sergei Lavrov
Promote
Russia
Early
" We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy. "
Sergei Lavrov
Right
Democracy
Believe
" NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation. "
Sergei Lavrov
Cannot
Accept
NATO
" 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. "
Sergei Lavrov
Left
Congress
About
" We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents. "
Sergei Lavrov
American
Problems
Behavior
" We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria. "
Sergei Lavrov
Syria
Only
Secular
" I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic. "
Sergei Lavrov
I Can
You
Work
" Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation. "
Sergei Lavrov
Against
Attack
Being
" Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country. "
Sergei Lavrov
United
Country
Person
" The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia. "
Sergei Lavrov
Russia
Focus
Partnership