India, Feb. 8 -- India's commerce minister Piyush Goyal, speaking some more on Sunday about the trade deal framework with the US, again sidestepped a direct answer about US President's Donald Trump's condition that India will not buy Russian oil or he will re-impose tariffs.

"The buying of crude oil or LNG, LPG from the US is in India's own strategic interests as we diversify our oil sources," Goyal said.

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On the matter of the US making Russian oil an issue - for Delhi's oil dealings with Vladimir Putin's Moscow regime despite a war in Ukraine - Goyal has so far said that's the domain of the Ministry of External Affairs.

In the Sunday interview with ANI, the quest...