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🎙Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with France Télévisions(March 26, 2026, Moscow) Read in full ❓Question: Let us turn to the situation in the Middle East. The US and Israel have launched a military operation against Iran. It has now been going on for 20 days. You have done much to defend your ally – Iran. Why? 💬Sergey Lavrov: We have been defending not so much the Islamic Republic as – first and foremost – international law. Iran is not an ally per se, but a strategic partner, as reflected in the relevant Treaty. I do not think that the French, who have traditionally and historically also claimed to stand on the side of international law, fail to see what is happening. In fact, one does not even need to “see” it – we are watching it unfold in real time. When US President Donald Trump says that international law does not interest him and that he will be guided by his own moral principles and instincts, this can hardly be met with approval. Russia has repeatedly signalled to the Americans the need to establish dialogue on resolving all the problems of the Persian Gulf and the Middle East region as a whole. ☝️Every time the US and its allies interfere in the processes unfolding in the region, the situation becomes ever more dismal. Iraq, Syria and Libya have been destroyed – and no one knows when Libya will be “put back together”. The same is now happening to Iran. Moreover, this is already the second time in a row that aggression against this country has begun at the height of negotiations. Everyone is talking about this. It cannot but raise serious questions about the American negotiators who were supposedly conducting this political and diplomatic process. When senior members of the US administration speak with bravado and pride about the cold-blooded killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader and other members of the country’s leadership, it is difficult to call this anything other than cynicism. <...> ❓ Question: You say that the US and Israel are violating international law in Iran. Can we ask you the same question and say that Russia is violating international law in Ukraine? 💬Sergey Lavrov: It is not me who is telling you that the US and Israel are violating international law in Iran. It is a fact that no one denies, including the French leadership and a number of other EU countries. On other continents as well, Everyone understands perfectly well what is going on. <...> What is the difference between the situation in Iran and that in Ukraine? The difference is that the Islamic Republic has not violated any international obligations, including with regard to its nuclear programme. In 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (#JCPOA) was signed. It was endorsed by the UN Security Council. The JCPOA was dismantled by the US when, in 2017, during President Trump’s first term, it withdrew from the plan in violation of all its obligations. Iran violated nothing. Ukraine violated everything that could be violated, together with its Western patrons (*above all, the Minsk Agreements endorsed by the UN Security Council). And when, in December 2021, we proposed concluding treaties with the US and NATO on security guarantees that would ensure a balanced model of security and stability based on a balance of interests between Russia, Ukraine and the West, we were told that this was none of our business and that Ukraine would join NATO. 👉 Therefore, to say that we gave no warning, or that France, Germany and Ukraine’s other patrons did not know they were steering things towards a crisis, in my view, is not quite correct. I have not the slightest doubt that serious French political analysts and politicians fully understand what this is about and what lies at the root of the current crisis.

🇺🇳 The Russian Federation completed its Presidency in the United Nations Security Council on July 31. Its packed agenda revolved around three central events, with the first two of them attended by FM Sergey Lavrov. On July 16, we held a high-level open debate titled “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” which reaffirmed the need to hold detailed discussions dealing with the underpinnings of the emerging multipolar world order, the objective to reinforce a UN-centred system of international relations, as well as the need to carry out a comprehensive review of the root causes of present-day conflicts and to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome them. The fact that the Global Majority tends to distrust the infamous Western concept of a rules-based world order was also mentioned during the debate. On July 17, the Security Council held a quarterly ministerial-level debate on the agenda item titled “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.” During this meeting, participants discussed the situation in the region with all its tension, while placing a special emphasis on the escalating violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone for finding ways out of this unprecedented crisis. In addition to this, the UNSC held separatemeetings on July 26 and 31 on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the assassination of the Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. On July 19, the UNSC held a debate titled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (#CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (#CIS), and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO).” In his remarks, Deputy FM Sergey Vershinin stressed the importance for the UN to work closer with constructive regional organisations. <...> In addition to this, Russia’s UNSC Presidency included all the events as part of the mandate-reporting cycle. 👉 The Middle East bloc included meetings on Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. 👉 TheAfrican agenda covered discussions of the situation in West Africa, the Sahara and Sahel region, and theDR Congo. 👉 The council also touched upon peacebuilding efforts in Columbia and the start of deploying the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti. 👉 We exchanged views on the activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia and the Cyprus settlement. ❗️The Ukraine crisis remained high on the agenda. On July 9, Western countries convened a Security Council meeting in connection with the tragic incident involving a children’s hospital in Kiev. During the debate, the Russian delegation refuted accusations by its opponents and shared evidence demonstrating that the Ukrainian air defence systems were to blame for the incident. On July 25, Russia initiated a UNSC meeting to discuss the unrelenting flow of Western weapons into Ukraine, which delays a settlement in this conflict and leads to more victims. The Security Council adopted four resolutions in July: ✅ on focusing the CAR arms embargo on illegal armed groups; ✅ extending the mandates for the UN Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti; ✅ regarding the UN Focal Point on delisting-related matters and re-establishing the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General UNSC Sanctions Issues. 🇺🇳 Russia went to great lengths to enable the Security Council to be effective and responsive in its work. We encouraged our colleagues within the Council to come up with collective responses when dealing with challenges to peace and security, while seeking guidance from a holistic view of the purposes and principles set forth in the UN Charter and their inter-connected nature. The central events on the agenda of the Russian Presidency attracted a lot of attention within the international community, reaffirming our country’s high authority and the respect it commands as a UN founding member and permanent member of the Security Council. Read in full #RussiaUN

🎙Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting media corporation(Moscow, December 15, 2025) Read in full Key points: • Throughout history, Europe has repeatedly been a source of all evil and spawn of deepest crises. <...> Europe is now trying again to dictate to everyone its terms and wishes which seem to be connected with the Ukraine crisis. • Europe is using it to assert itself, to throw sand in the wheels and scheme against the United States and all those who seek a just settlement. • The theory and practices of Nazism are being resurrected in Europe, primarily in Brussels but also in Berlin, London, Paris, not to mention the Baltic States. • Europe is waging a war with us once again with Ukrainians under a Nazi flag, <...> pumping Ukraine with increasingly more modern weapons. • One of major purposes [of the new US National Security Strategy] is to make Europe know its place and to prevent it from imposing its liberal ways • The United States wants to set up its policy for opposing China. <...> We are not against competition, however, it should be fair. • Europeans have theft running in their blood, which we can see from the example of “frozen” Russian assets. By the way, Iranian assets are also partially frozen like Venezuelan assets and assets of many other countries. • The West, including the United States, do not always has enough power to maintain its domination, and thus they have to resort to dirty, anti-democratic and anti-market methods. • The West is planning and trying to split the group of the five Caspian states and impose decisions which will not get a consensus of the Caspian countries. • The second outrageous example is Palestine. Not only was the UN Security Council resolution violated in this case, but also a great number of resolutions of both the Security Council and the UN General Assembly. • The last year’s developments around the Iranian nuclear programme, the absolutely outrageous illegitimate actions by Europeans, the attempts to put the blame on the Islamic Republic of Iran for the collapse of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (#JCPOA), <...> reaffirms that the entire world order is being subject to most severe tests. • When Iran was attacked by Israel followed by the United States, we condemned those actions as having absolutely nothing to do with international legality. The key is that so far no one has offered any clear evidence that Iran has violated something, neither the IAEA, nor the Israelis, nor the Americans. • Russia is firm in its commitment to ensuring the Islamic Republic of Iran its unconditional right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, just as any other country. • Russia and Iran signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty. We will always support Iran and promote its legitimate rights. • Our bilateral plans [with Iran] are serious enough as are our plans of cooperation in the world arena. I mean in #BRICS, the #SCO and the #EAEU. This includes the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. • We are also engaged in investment cooperation. In addition to the North–South corridor, there is also such a flagship project as the Bushehr NPP – its construction is ongoing. • There is a promising format that will help strengthen security in the [Middle East] – I am referring to the relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC). • There is the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, and we want to work with the Islamic Republic of Iran and with other neighbouring countries, including within this organisation’s framework. • In recent months, the Islamist Republic has made it clear that it is not seeking war or new conflicts. • In the United States and certain countries of Europe <...> there are people who have been speaking out in favour of reviving the arms limitation and control frameworks, including transparency measures. Iran and Russia have been proactive in backing this approach.