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Undated: Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician. In office since 2004, he is the Foreign Minister of Russia.[1] Previously, he was the Russian Representative to the UN, serving from 1994 to 2004.
Lavrov has likened the war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to a kindergarten fight between two children, saying "Together with China we'll continue to strive for a reasonable approach and not an emotional one like when children in a kindergarten start fighting and no-one can stop them."[18]
Lavrov also said that the United States would not carry out a strike on North Korea because "they know for sure – rather than suspect – that it has atomic bombs." He said the U.S. attacked Iraq "solely because they had 100 percent information that there were no weapons of mass destruction left there."[19]
Lavrov criticized U.S. sanctions against countries like Iran, Turkey and Russia. In August 2018, Lavrov said, "unilateral enforcement measures are illegitimate in international affairs" [...]. "One way to counter these illegitimate barriers and restrictions is we can use national currencies on our bilateral trade". "I strongly believe that abuse of the role the U.S. dollar plays as an international currency will eventually result in its role being undermined".[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov
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May 10: Trump Bars U.S. Press, but Not Russia’s, at Meeting With Russian Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/trump-russia-meeting-american-reporters-blocked.html
May 10: Russia’s Oval Office Victory Dance
The cozy meeting between President Trump and Russia’s foreign minister came at Vladimir Putin’s insistence.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/10/james-comey-firing-trump-lavrov-putin-215124
May 17: Putin offers transcript of Trump meeting with Lavrov
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to provide a transcript of a controversial Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, raising the stakes in an affair that has sent the White House into a tailspin.
Speaking at a press conference in Sochi, Russia, Putin dismissed allegations that Trump had shared top-secret security intelligence with Russian diplomats as "political schizophrenia."
"If the US administration finds it necessary, we are ready to provide the record of the conversation between Trump and Lavrov to the Senate and Congress," Putin said.
The intervention by Putin could turn up the pressure on the White House to provide its own transcript of the meeting. The Senate intelligence committee has already demanded a briefing on what was said at the meeting from members of the Trump administration who were present.
Trump has admitted sharing security information on terrorism and aviation safety with the Russians, saying he had the "absolute right" to do so, but the White House has not confirmed or denied whether that information was classified.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/russia-us-trump-lavrov-intel/index.html
May 19: Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html
May 20: Russian FM Sergei Lavrov denies Comey firing brought up in Trump meeting
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/05/20/russian-fm-sergei-lavrov-denies-topic-fbi-firing-raised-trump-meeting/101916364/
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September 28: Lavrov notes Trump blamed China, not Russia, for U.S. election meddling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-russia-un/lavrov-notes-trump-blamed-china-not-russia-for-us-election-meddling-idUSKCN1M82UH
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January 16: Russia’s Lavrov Mocks Suggestion That Trump Worked for the Kremlin
“That’s stupid,” President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday. “How can the president of the United States be an agent of another country? Just think about that.”
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also dismissed “accusations that President Trump is effectively a Russian agent” at his annual press conference Wednesday in Moscow, as he attacked Congress and the American media for undermining the U.S. leader.
Trump said Monday that he “never worked for Russia” after news reports that the FBI grew so concerned by his actions toward Moscow that they quietly began a counterintelligence investigation into whether he was working on its behalf.
Lavrov accused American media of “lowering their journalistic standards” in coverage of the issue and denounced U.S. lawmakers for challenging Trump’s right to conduct foreign policy. “This right is under attack from Congress and this doesn’t make these attacks constitutional or less illegal.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-16/russia-s-lavrov-dismisses-claims-of-trump-collusion-with-kremlin
January 16:
So far, both sides have failed to agree on another round of consultations.
"As before, we are still interested in restoring normal relations with the United States and the European Union on the principles of equality and mutual consideration of interests," Lavrov told a press conference Wednesday, according to Russian news agency TASS.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nuclear-sergei-lavrov-russia-keeps-door-open-for-talks-with-united-states-to-save-inf-treaty/
February 12: Russia warns Trump peace plan will undo all Israeli-Palestinian progress so far
FM Lavrov says Moscow ‘worried’ by ‘dangerous’ US approach, adds ‘deal of the century’ doesn’t include independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital
https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-warns-trump-peace-plan-will-undo-all-israeli-palestinian-progress-so-far/
February 26: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the United States has asked Moscow’s advice in dealing with North Korea before a summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader.
Trump and Kim Jong Un are expected to meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Vietnam’s capital. Their first meeting last summer ended without substantive agreements on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament.
Lavrov, who is also visiting Vietnam this week, said in comments carried by Russian news agencies on Monday that Russia believes that the U.S. ought to offer Pyongyang “security guarantees” for the disarmament deal to succeed.
He also mentioned that “the U.S. is even asking our advice, our views on this or that scenario of” how the summit in Hanoi could pan out.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/putin-foreign-minister-lavrov-in-vietnam-ahead-of-trump-kim-summit-2019-02-26
February 26: What Russia wants from the Trump-Kim summit
The US is consulting Russia ahead of the summit, “asking our advice, our views on this or that scenario,” Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian state news organizations yesterday (Feb. 25). Lavrov is reportedly recommending that the US offer “security guarantees” to the North Korean leader to encourage him to denuclearize and has even flown to Vietnam this week as well.
https://qz.com/1558984/trump-kim-summit-2019-what-russia-and-putin-want/
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