Sergei Lavrov Quotes

A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

Only by decisions of national policy based upon accurate information can we have the chance that peace will endure.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.