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Andrey Nesterenko dismissed from Russiaâ€™s Foreign Ministry Information Department

11 January 2011 09:16 (UTC +04:00)

The ministry has not made official statement on personnel replacements. Kommersant reports quoting its sources as saying that President Dmitry Medvedev was dissatisfied with Nesterenkoâ€™s comments on Russiaâ€™s sale of C-300 missiles to Iran, which caused his resignation. The official of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated last June that despite UN Security Councilâ€™s sanctions against Iran Russia will continue to implement terms of the deal. The diplomat said C-300 missiles sold to Iran were not in category of international restriction. In September, President Medvedev signed a decree imposing ban on this sale. The journalists claim that Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov was recommended to dismiss Nesterenko, who has been working in the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2008. Andrey Nesterenko may be appointed as Russiaâ€™s ambassador in the Republic of Montenegro.
Lukashevich has been working as Russiaâ€™s deputy permanent representative in OSCE since 2008. He started his diplomatic carrier in 1980 in Afghanistan. He worked in Russian embassies in OSCE and U.S. He is one of the authors of the European Security charter adopted on 1999 OSCE Istanbul summit.