Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said during a press conference in Warsaw with his Polish counterpart that the conflict in Ukraine will not end through decisions to buy or not buy oil or minerals, but rather through diplomacy and negotiations, stressing that India’s problem with the West regarding purchasing Russian oil must be viewed in the context of resolving the conflict and not trade.
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India faces continued Western pressure over its purchases of Russian oil after the start of the conflict in Ukraine in 2022, as it has become one of the largest buyers of Russian oil, and imports from Russia constitute more than a third of oil imports to India.
Jaishankar said during a joint press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in the capital, Warsaw, that the conflict “will not end simply because someone decided to buy oil, alumina, fertilizers, minerals or ores, or to abstain from buying them.”
He added that the conflict "will end when diplomacy is involved, and when dialogue and negotiations begin."
In response to a question about the criticism directed at India over the purchase of Russian oil, he said: “I believe that the essence of the problem must be correctly identified. The problem is conflict, and the solution here does not lie in the field of trade.”
New Delhi is under constant Western pressure because of its purchases of Russian oil. India became one of the largest buyers of Russian oil after the conflict in Ukraine began in 2022, and imports from Russia currently constitute more than a third of oil imports to this South Asian country.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had previously confirmed that India is guided by the interests of consumers in the field of importing energy resources.
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