Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov

Diop's Moscow trip comes as French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is due to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday 12 November to discuss Paris's worries about Russia's intentions in the Sahel and other issues...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi told her Moscow counterpart Sergei Lavrov in July that her country's yet-to-be-formed parliament would have to consider plans for Russia to build a naval base in Port Sudan before the government could give final approval...

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called it 'good news' but he said the ceasefire would have to be backed by verification...

Morocco is careful to keep Moscow on side too and the same day that Pompeo's visit was confirmed Bourita held a long call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov which took in the 'Moroccan Sahara'...

Serraj visited Russia on 2-3 March and while he didn't meet Putin Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had been 'maintaining contacts with all parties to the intra-Libyan political process' launched at Skhirat in Morocco in December 2015...

Meanwhile an early March visit to Algiers by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov led to speculation that Moscow was seeking to make 'mischief' in Libya building on President Vladimir Putin's success in changing the direction of the Syrian conflict...

On the eve of his departure for the UN Mugabe received the welcome boost of a lightning visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who joined his Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov who had preceded him by a week...

After the French government announced that it had been financing and arming the anti-Gadaffi rebels in the Nafusa Mountains Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticised what he called a crude violation of Resolution 1973...