Who is the better foreign minister - Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock or Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov?

At a meeting in Moscow:

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It’s Tuesday, Jan. 18. Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov, 71, Russia’s foreign minister for nearly 18 years, is sitting at a table inside the government guest house in Moscow. Sitting across from him is Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, who is 30 years younger than her Russian host and has been in office for just 42 days.
They have just finished a round of talks between their delegations and Lavrov has invited Baerbock to lunch. The appetizer is followed by what always follows in Moscow: vodka.
Baerbock doesn’t touch the glass.

Lavrov prods her, saying she has to drink the vodka that has been placed in front of her.

But Baerbock counters that she had made a previous trip to Russia several years ago and had been told: If you don’t toughen up and learn to hold your liquor, you’ll never become a leading politician. But, she tells Lavrov, she managed to do so without alcohol. "If drinking vodka at noon is a test of toughness.... I gave birth to two children."

It was a moment in which Baerbock was able to turn the tables in this men's game. For Lavrov and the others, drinking vodka was seemingly a kind of entrance exam into the world of men – one in which she, the newcomer, had to prove herself as a woman. But she is setting a different standard, one that men can’t compete with: childbearing. It was a trick, and it immediately put her in the driver's seat, which is where she likes to be.

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https://www.spiegel.de/international/ger...0b-7ef526ad8d8d

about Baerbock:

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Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (pronounced [anaːˌleːnaː ˈbɛːɐ̯ˌbɔk] (listen); born 15 December 1980) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party serving as Germany's minister for foreign affairs since 2021.

From 2018 to January 2022, Baerbock served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Robert Habeck. She was the party's candidate for chancellor in the 2021 federal election, making her the first such candidate for the Greens and, after Angela Merkel, only the second woman to be selected by a party as its candidate for chancellor by a major German political party. After the election, the Greens formed a traffic light coalition led by Olaf Scholz, and Baerbock was sworn in as Germany's first female foreign minister on 8 December 2021.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalena_Baerbock

about Lavrov:

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Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Лавров, pronounced [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ lɐˈvrof]; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004.

Lavrov served as the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov