DD Geopolitics
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🇷🇺🎉 HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY TO SERGEY LAVROV – THE GREATEST STATESMAN OF OUR TIME!
To celebrate, we’ve gathered some of the sharpest and most memorable quotes from Russia’s legendary Foreign Minister:
🔹 “A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.”
🔹 “I don’t get paid to be an optimist.”
🔹 “Some people don’t like that we don’t trade our sovereignty, but it can’t be any other way.”
🔹 “I don’t want to resort to jargon, but we have a concept of ‘a boy said – a boy did.’ At least ‘concepts’ should be observed at the international level.”
🔹 “As for the iron curtain, it is practically already coming down. Let them just be careful in the West so as not to pinch anything for themselves.”
🔹 “Self-respecting countries do not accept ultimatums.”
🔹 “If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?”
🔹 “I am definitely for peace. I don’t remember who said, ‘if you want peace, prepare for war,’ but I don’t share this philosophy. I share the idea, which I would formulate as follows: if you want peace, be ready to always defend yourself.”
A master diplomat, an uncompromising patriot, and one of the most skilled foreign policy minds of the any era.
🇷🇺 Many years of strength, wisdom, and victories to Sergey Viktorovich!
East_Calling
@East_Calling
❤️ Sergey Lavrov turns 75 today. TASS has collected facts about him:
‼️ He has held the post of minister in the Russian government for the longest time – he has headed the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more than 21 years;
🟢 Lavrov has a rule about how to become Minister of Foreign Affairs: “Don’t think about it, but try to do your job honestly”;
🟢 He emphasized that he would serve Russia as long as it needed him;
🟢 From January 1994 to March 2004 he was the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN. Legends about his skill, charisma, and sense of humor are still circulating at the headquarters;
🟢 It was then that Western media first compared Lavrov to Prince Alexander Gorchakov, who coined the famous phrase “Russia is not angry, Russia is concentrating,” and the head of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, known throughout the world as “Mr. No”;
🟢 Prefers active recreation. Plays football, goes rafting on mountain rivers, and in the summer spends his vacation in the countryside in Siberia;
🟢 An ardent football fan, his favorite team is Spartak;
🟢 Author of collections of articles “Between the Past and the Future. Russian Diplomacy in a Changing World”, “We Are Polite People! Reflections on Foreign Policy” and the text of the MGIMO anthem;
🟢 He can also peak English, French, and Sinhala.
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Source: TASS
Zin Note: I invite all of you to post your favorite Lavrov moments as a reply to this post!
Happy birthday, Sergey! A legend among us!
