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MOSCOW, March 23 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. The new adviser to the US president for national security John Bolton is a tough diplomat and politician and will pursue the line that US leader Donald Trump designates, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"He is certainly a tough diplomat and politician, of course, he will conduct the line that US President Donald Trump refers to," he said, commenting on the appointment of Bolton at the request of journalists.

According to Lavrov, Trump decides on the appointment of one or another official, depending on his own understanding of the tasks that the US administration faces.

Lavrov also called Bolton a professional.

"I worked with him, he was acting as the permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations ... But after he left this post, he stayed in political science circles, we periodically called up, he somehow stopped in New York from Washington. he met, discussed the situation that was taking shape at that time, he, of course, is a professional person, "the Russian Foreign Minister said.

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