00:00Aspect of ties with United States, there is another aspect of ties with Russia.
00:05Yogesh, yahan par Russia ka zikr karna bahut zaruri isli hai kyunki US aur Russia obviously
00:11go hand in hand as far as India is concerned and also in the elections Russian role is not deniable.
00:18Ambassador Goyal, how do you see the role of Russia also vis-a-vis India and United States?
00:25Kaise business partners ke taur par dekhen hai, ya phir cultural connect dekhen hai,
00:30ya geopolitical importance mein, Russia kitna mada role play karega?
00:33A very very very important role and very large role because it again as a part of geostrategic
00:41balancing and hedging that it becomes very obvious that for the USA kind of dealings
00:49that have existed between India and Russia are uncomfortable for them because it does go
00:55against their own policies with Russia particularly after the Ukraine war started.
01:02Now for example about purchase of oil, there were murmurs even earlier that it is not and
01:08particularly because of the payment situation when they are trying to work out the payment
01:15media without using dollars, it does deny, it does defy the sanctions which USA imposes
01:23against Russia. USA has been able to basically look away from those issues because USA needs India.
01:31USA needs India in its contest against China in Indo-Pacific but if on that day the USA
01:40feels that yes this is actually, they don't need India anymore. I am quite certain that their
01:47behavior vis-a-vis India-Russia relations will undergo certain changes. It will depend upon
01:55what it is really and therefore all that really we need to work on is that our relationship
02:03with USA or Russia does not become so unidimensional that we begin to depend upon one or the other.
02:12We have to keep our options open. In that sense our strategic autonomy is the best policy
02:17when we really deal with each country depending upon our own interest and they are comfortable
02:23with the fact that they need us. So work on that kind of a basis where we can have a
02:29comfortable relations depending upon mutual needs.
02:34Yes.
02:36Right. Indeed.
02:41Yogesh, here we tell our viewers that United States has started to vote as of now and voting is being done at the polling booths as of now.
02:53Even before this at least for a week voting has been going on in the US which is a postal ballot.
02:59They are sending it through mail. A lot of capable or senior people use this.
03:06For information let me tell you very quickly that the first election results have also come in.
03:13The first election results have been announced in America. Voting in Dixville, not in New Hampshire,
03:19began at midnight and concluded in 15 minutes because there were only 6 voters there.
03:25Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have got 3 votes each.
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