Igor Ivanov was appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Security Council (a constitutional body of the Russian President that works out the President's decisions on national security affairs and matters of strategic interest) until he submitted his resignation on July 9th,  2007.
Ivanov was succeeded to the post of foreign minister by Sergey Lavrov in 2004, and appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Security Council, followed shortly by the appointment of Sergey Lavrov as foreign minister. On 9 July 2007 he submitted his resignation. The Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF; Russian:     (); Sovet bezopasnosti Rossiiyskoiy Federatsii (SBRF)) is a constitutional body of the Russian President that works out the President's decisions on national security affairs and matters of strategic interest. 
