Responding to a question on secondary US sanctions against India for importing Russian oil, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made it clear: New Delhi’s choices are its own.

“There is no threat to the economic partnership between India and Russia,” Lavrov told ANI on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had already underlined that India decides its partners independently.

Lavrov added that if Washington wanted to enhance bilateral trade with India, New Delhi was open to hearing proposals. “But when it comes to trade, investment, economic, military, technological and other relations between India and third states, India will discuss only with those states in question,” he stressed.

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