“No threat to this relationship”: Sergey Lavrov about the economic partnership between India and Russia

Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar shakes the hand of Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UNGA80, in New York | Photocredit: Ani

During the 80th session of the General Meeting of the United Nations (UNGA), the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that the economic partnership between India and Russia is not “threatened” in the midst of American rates for buying Russian oil.

Responding to a question from Ani to secondary sanctions that India imposed by the US for importing Russian oil, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “(The economic partnership between India and Russia) is not threatened … Indian Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have clearly made his own partners.

If the US has proposals about how they can enrich the bilateral trade between the US and India, they are willing to discuss the conditions for it, whatever conditions the US can present. But when it comes to trade, investments, economic, military, technological and other relationships between India and third states, it is something that India will only discuss with those states in question.

“About India who buy Russian oil and India-Russian relations, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said:” … We have full respect for the national interests of India, complete respect for foreign policy that Narendra Modi is implementing to promote these national interests. We regularly hold contacts at the highest level … “Sergey Lavrov underlined the strategic relationship between India and Russia and said that they have” greatest respect “for the foreign policy of the Indian government to pursue its” national interests “under the leadership of Premier Narendra Modi.

These situations that may occur between India and the United States or India and any other country, I cannot consider them a criterion for relations between India and the Russian Federation. We have a strategic partnership, as we call it, strategic partnership relationships for a long time.

At one point our Indian friends suggested supplementing that term and we now call it a privileged strategic partnership and a little later our Indian friends now presented a different clarification, we call it a particularly privileged strategic partnership. We have the greatest respect for the national interests of India and the foreign policy that Narendra is implementing modes to promote these interests. We regularly hold contacts at the highest level. He also remembered the recent meeting of Premier Modi and President Putin at the SCO top in China. He noticed the “close coordination” between the two countries at international level.

“Premier Modi and President Putin recently met in Tianjin at the SCO summit in China. And in December a visit from Mr Putin to New Delhi is planned. We have a very extensive bilateral agenda, trade, military cooperation, finance, humanitarian affairs, health care, high-tech, artificial speaking”

Published on September 28, 2025