Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said India-Russia relations go beyond oil trade, describing them as a “particularly privileged strategic partnership”. He stressed respect for India’s independent foreign policy while rejecting US pressure over oil purchases during remarks at the UN.

United Nations: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says his country’s relation with India is not defined by oil purchases but is a “particularly privileged strategic partnership”.

Asked at his news conference here on Saturday about US pressures on India against buying Russian oil, he said, “I can’t consider them a criteria for relations between India and the Russian Federation”.

“We have strategic partnership, as we call it, for a long time, strategic partnership relations”, he said. “Now we call

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