Sergey Lavrov is a Russian diplomat who has served as Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004. A career diplomat who joined the Soviet foreign service in 1972, he was Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. The United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on him after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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The United States canceled the group photo at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta after several European ministers objected to posing with Russia's Sergey Lavrov. Rubio said the United States has to talk to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine.
