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Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov () (b. September 23 , 1945 in Moscow ) became the Russian Foreign Minister in 1998 , succeeding Yevgeny Primakov . He is the son of a Russian father and a Georgian mother. In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow State Linguistic University). He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain . He returned to the Soviet Union in 1983 . In 1991 he became the ambassador in Madrid . He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 11, 1998 . As Russian foreign minister, Ivanov was an opponent of NATO 's action in Yugoslavia , calling the Russian peacekeeping mission in Kosovo a mistake. He was also an opponent of the U.S. Invasion Of Iraq . Ivanov played a key role in mediating a deal between Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and opposition parties during Georgia 's " Rose Revolution " in 2003 . Ivanov was succeeded to the post of foreign minister by Sergey Lavrov in 2004 , and appointed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to the post of Secretary of the Security Council. REFERENCES
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