Sergey Lavrov

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (center), accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, poses for photos at the beginning of their bilateral meeting at United Nations headquarters on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A pro-Syrian regime protester (left), holding a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah with Arabic that reads "Hezbollah", cheers a convoy believed to be transporting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks to speak at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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** FILE ** Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a press conference during the annual gathering of NATO foreign ministers at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) and his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, walk to their meeting in Moscow on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says relations with the U.S. can improve only after "an agreement regarding the architecture of the European missile defense system." (Associated Press)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participate in a joint briefing at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, here at an ASEAN summit in 2010, are expected to sign a bilateral agreement soon allowing intercountry adoptions to resume fully. It is said to be "nearing finalization." (Associated Press)