Discussing India's role in the new Pacific arrangement, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said that it is a new idea, it is something different. Today we trade much more with the East of India than with the West. Here are our major trading partners and economic partners. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said these things while speaking at a program at Hudson Institute.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said, "Related to the Indo-Pacific, another concept that has gained ground in the last 6 years is the Quad. It was first attempted in 2007, but it did not take off and then It was revived after a decade in 2017. In 2017, it was done at the bureaucratic level in the US. In 2019 it became a ministerial forum and in 2021 it became a President, Prime Minister forum. It seems that it is firmly is growing and we will have the privilege of hosting the summit in India next year.

Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said, 'John (moderator) you said that India and America have never worked together before. This is a very thoughtful observation because dealing with each other is not the same as working with each other. In the past we have always treated each other, sometimes not entirely happily, but working with each other is truly unknown. This is an area that we have both entered into over the last few years. It requires both of us, what my Prime Minister called the hesitation of history when he spoke to the Congress a few years ago. I think this will be very important for the future of the Pacific system.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said, “The world we live in today is largely a Western structure. Now, if you look at the world architecture, there has clearly been a huge change in the last 8 years. Jaishankar said India is non-Western. India is not anti-West."

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar says, "...today we believe that the United Nations where the most populous country is not in the Security Council, when the fifth largest economy is not here, when the continent of more than 50 countries is not here "So in such a situation the UN clearly has low credibility and to a large extent effectiveness. We need to consider what we can do to make it better, fitter, efficient, more purposeful."

On India-Russia relations, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said, "...if you consider international relations in the last 70 years, there have been US-Russia relations, China-Russia relations, US-China relations... in the last 70 years. Almost every major relationship in 70 years has seen a lot of ups and downs, sharp ups and downs. India-Russia is very extraordinary. It has been very stable. It may not be spectacular, but it is at a certain level may be stable, but it has not seen the kind of ups and downs that your relationship with Russia or China's relationship with Russia or Europe's relationship with Russia has seen and that in itself is important. I think That as a result of what's happening in Ukraine, I think it's clear that in many ways Russia's relations with the West have broken down and in that case, it's logical that Russia focuses more on its Asian side. Historically, however, Russia has always seen itself as a European power.