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Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov ( Russian, Игорь Сергеевич Иванов) became the foreign minister of Russia in 1998, succeeding Yevgeny Primakov. He was born on September 23, 1945 in Moscow.

He is the son of a Russian father and a Georgian mother. In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain. He returned to Russia in 1983. In 1991 he became the ambassador in Madrid. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 11, 1998. Ivanov was succeeded to the post of foreign minister by Sergey Lavrov.

He was an opponent of NATO's action in Yugoslavia, calling the involvement of Russian forces in the peace-keeping mission a mistake. He is an opponent of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq.

References

Personal data sheet: Igor Ivanov [1]
"Igor Ivanov", TIME magazine, Septemeber 13, 1999; [2]
Bridget Kendall interview with Ivanov, BBC, March 5, 2003; [3], comments

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