Russia fully respects India's national interests and the independent foreign policy being pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, asserting that India's ties with the United States or any other country cannot be a benchmark for New Delhi-Moscow ties .

Mr. Lavrov, who addressed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) shortly before External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar's speech at the high-level General Debate, said India and Russia share a "particularly privileged strategic partnership".

“These situations that might arise between India and the United States or India and any other country, I can't consider them a criteria for relations between India and Russia,” he said at a press conference on Saturday (September 27, 2025).

Mr. Lavrov was res

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