85 Quotes by Igor Ivanov

Our common goal is to ensure that Iraq should not have weapons of mass destruction, ... It must be attained on the basis of the U.N. Security Council's resolution No. 1441. All other goals go beyond the limits of our interests.

NATO continues, using ultimatums, to insist Belgrade and the entire international community accept the alliance's demands.

I think only facts alone should corroborate this. In order to get the facts, we need to bring about the speedy return of the inspectors to Iraq.

We live in hope and Russia will do everything it can to ensure that as a result of these talks international security will be strengthened and no harm will be done to anyone's interests,

will help activate the political mediation of the situation in that country with an active role of the United Nations.

without any artificial delays, without any artificial obstacles.

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

We aren't hiding anything, ... We're prepared to completely inform the U.N. secretary-general and world community of how things really stand.

We are not trying now to carry out any major ground attack, ... The job consists of liquidating the terrorist groups and not allowing any more loss of lives among the civilian population and the Russian military. The way this is done depends on the situation.