Where he perfected his command Phone Number List of Sinhala, one of the languages he speaks besides Russian, English and French. There he worked as an advisor and was also an interpreter for the then ambassador Rafiq , who would later become first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. Back in Moscow in 1976, he held various positions in the Phone Number List ministry until in 1981 he was sent as a member of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations (UN) in New York, where he stayed for seven years. The dissolution of the Soviet Union found Lavrov working in Moscow, in what is now Phone Number List known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 1994 he returned to.
New York to serve as his country's representative to the UN , and Phone Number List presided over the Security Council on several occasions. Despite being a possible candidate to replace Primakov for the post of foreign minister in 1998, his appointment had to wait until 2004, when he was summoned by Putin to replace Igor Ivanov, Primakov's successor Phone Number List and a major opponent. both to the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia and to the US invasion of Iraq. Since then, Lavrov has served as foreign minister. The arrival of Primakov to the Foreign Phone Number List Ministry marked a break with the.
Russian foreign policy of the Phone Number List first post-Soviet years , which had been subordinated to the resolutions of the United States and Europe. The threat posed by the expansion of NATO into the territories of the former socialist bloc and the objective of recovering from the humiliation caused by the loss of the position of superpower after the Phone Number List dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, together with the decline of Boris Yeltsin and his more Western advisers, conducted a new foreign policy. Putin's goal was to achieve independence from Western powers in Phone Number List decision- the strengthening of the role of the State.