Famous quotes by Sergey Lavrov:
"How many people must be killed. How many countries must be destabilized to punish that one person?"
"On a number of occasions, the documents shown to us"
"If our Israeli friends have this information, if they have these facts, we would be the first interested to find out about it, ... We are taking this very seriously and would be the last one to be lenient about violations of the nonproliferation regime."
"Documents that were shown to us were forged on a number of occasions,"
"without referring this issue to other organizations."
"We do not agree that this matter should be sent to the Security Council,"
"must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate."
"We think that the current situation permits us to develop this issue and do everything possible within the means of this organization, without referring this issue to other organizations now."
"As for relations between the European trio and Russia, we are not expecting any change in these relations. There is no need for that,"
"We have to wait until three presidents discuss the final text which is on the table, and as far as I am concerned I cannot vote tonight (Wednesday) until I hear from my president,"