The Indian High Commissioner in the UK Vikram Doraiswami issued a relatively wild and dull answer to journalists criticizing Indian imports of oil from Russia.
Doraiswami, who spoke to the British Radio Station Times last week, asked, “What would he let us do? Turn off our economy?” He added that India is the third largest energy consumer in the world and imports more than 80 % of his products.
According to the TOI report, the High Commissioner pointed to irony and said that many European countries continue to buy rare countries and other energy products, perhaps not, but from the same countries that refuse to let India bought.
Indian envoy to India-Rusk’s ties
Asked by India’s “closeness” with Russia and its President Vladimir Putin Dooriswami: “We have a relationship based on a number of metrics. One of them is our long -term security relationship that returns to an era where some of our western partners would not sell US weapons but sell them to our district.”
“Secondly, today we have an energy relationship that is the result of everyone else buying energy from the sources we have previously purchased. So we were largely moved from the energy market and the costs increased. We are the third largest energy consumer in the world and import more than 80 percent of our product.
“Thirdly, we also see around American relations that other countries keep for their own comfort with countries that are a source of difficulty for us. We ask you to come up with a small test of loyalty?” He asked further.
EU eyes faster Russian gas gradually
Reuters reported on Monday that the European Parliament is considering proposals for accelerating the EU Russian gas phase by one year, by January 2027, as officials in Brussels are preparing to negotiate a legal obligation.
The European Union countries and legislators are preparing to negotiate the EU plan for banning Russian gas imports – with the starting point of the legal proposal that the European Commission carried out until 1 January 2028 last month.
The head of the Parliament on the ban on Russian gas suggested that this deadline be moved forward to 1 January 2027, the documents describe in detail their changes to the commission’s proposal, the report added.
(With Reuters inputs)
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