00:00India has continued purchasing Russian oil, even as the United States has pressed countries to reduce such imports.
00:09First of all, how do you view this relationship with India in this context?
00:13And what does it mean for India-Russia relations more broadly? Thank you.
00:19I can't...
00:21These situations that might arise between India and the United States or India and any other country
00:29– I can't consider them a criteria for relations between India and the Russian Federation.
00:38We have strategic partnership, as we call it, for a long time, strategic partnership relations.
00:47At a certain point, our Indian friends proposed supplementing that term,
00:54and we now call it a privileged strategic partnership.
00:57And a little bit later, our Indian friends proposed another clarification,
01:03and now we call it a particularly privileged strategic partnership.
01:07We have full respect for the national interests of India, full respect for the foreign policy
01:17that Narendra Modi is carrying out to promote these national interests.
01:25We hold regular contacts at the highest level.
01:27Just recently, Prime Minister Modi and President Putin met in Tianjin at the ASEO Summit in China.
01:38And in December, a visit is being planned to – a visit from Mr. Putin is being planned to New Delhi.
01:48We have a very extensive bilateral agenda, trade, military-technical cooperation, finance, humanitarian matters,
01:58healthcare, high-tech, artificial intelligence, and, of course, close coordination at the international level within the ASEO, BRICS, and bilaterally.
02:15This year, my colleague – I spoke to him yesterday, Subharani Jashankar – well, he will visit Russia, I will visit India.
02:24We hold regular exchanges.
02:28And I heard – I'm not even asking what is going to happen to our trade relations, our oil.
02:35I don't ask our Indian colleagues this.
02:38They are perfectly capable of making these decisions for themselves.
02:42And publicly, my friend who I referenced earlier, when he was asked a similar question, said,
02:47if the U.S. wants to sell their oil to us, we are prepared to discuss the terms for this.
02:53But what we buy from other countries – not the United States, but from Russia or other countries – that's our own business.
03:04And that has nothing to do with the Indian-U.S. agenda, and I believe that that is a very worthy response that shows that India, like Turkey, has self-respect.
03:18And that's what comes in for what the other countries I mentioned as they talked about.
03:36And that is what I used to mind when I know.
03:40They've driven thisか and the
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