Meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting took place on Diplomats’ Day marked on February 10.
February 10, 2017 13:55The Kremlin, Moscow
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Earlier, the President congratulated current and former staff of the Foreign Ministry on their professional holiday.
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The beginning of the meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Lavrov, today you and your colleagues mark your professional holiday, Diplomats’ Day. I would like to congratulate you and all Russian diplomats on this holiday.
We know that your work is very important, demanding and difficult, and that it has recently become extremely dangerous. I would like to thank you for everything you, your assistants and the diplomatic corps as a whole are doing in the interests of Russia towards strengthening its positions on the international stage. I have the best wishes for you.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: Thank you very much, Mr President.
We have received your message of greetings, which was read out at a meeting held today on the occasion of Diplomats’ Day. Thank you for the kind words you wrote in that message and have said just now.
We appreciate your concern for and your attention to the diplomatic service, particularly to our professional tasks and also to the need to strengthen our workforce capacity, resources and to ensure social protection. This inspires our personnel to work honestly and efficiently in line with the Foreign Policy Concept that was adopted, with your agreement, in November last year.
The Concept reflects a new stage in the history of international relations and follows on the concept that was adopted in 2000 and focused on openness, pragmatism and willingness to work with everyone who is ready to reciprocate on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.
To be continued.