{"id":126081,"date":"2022-06-08T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126081"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:31:05","slug":"india-defends-oil-imports-from-russia-export-ban-on-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/08\/india-defends-oil-imports-from-russia-export-ban-on-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"India defends oil imports from Russia, export ban on wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily News <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>India has said Europe must see not oil imports from Russia from a political lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at Globsec 2022 Bratislava forum, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, We don\u2019t send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.lk\/sites\/default\/files\/u264\/pg13-6_11.jpg\">Jaishankar also highlighted Europe\u2019s continued purchase of gas from Russia.\u201dBuying Russian gas is not funding the war, why it\u2019s only Indian money and fund coming from India and not gas coming to Europe which funds war, let\u2019s be even-handed out here,\u201d he said in response to a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>External Affairs Minister also commented and explained why import of crude oil has gone up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the narrative that import has gone up nine times, it has gone up nine times from a very low base and it was a very low base because at that time markets were moron, why countries in Europe and West and the United States, why don\u2019t they allow Iranian oil in the market why don\u2019t they allow Venezuela oil to come to the market? They have squeezed every other source of oil we have and then say you will not go to the market and get the best deal for the people, it\u2019s not a fair approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also rubbished reports of trans-shipment of Russian fuel from India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understand the oil market there is an enormous shortage of oil, there is a physical shortage of oil, access to oil is difficult, a country like India would be crazy to get the oil from somebody else and sell to somebody else, this is nonsense,\u201d Jaishankar said. Europe has to grow up out of the mindset that Europe\u2019s problems are the world\u2019s problem but the world\u2019s problems are not Europe\u2019s problem, it is you it\u2019s yours, it is me it\u2019s ours,\u201d he added. The External Affairs Minister also defended and justified the recent move to curtail wheat exports. He said Indian wheat was stocked and it was used for speculative trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily News India has said Europe must see not oil imports from Russia from a political lens. Speaking at Globsec 2022 Bratislava forum, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, We don\u2019t send people to buy Russian oil, we send people to buy oil in the market, buy the best oil.\u201d Jaishankar also highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}