A perspective from India.
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
A perspective from India.
Clearly, many here will not agree.
But that is *precisely* what actual Freedom of Speech is about.
This article lays out the logic from an Indian perspective in an orderly manner. Remember, the world is not just “The West”.
Some excerpts below, much more in the article:
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“The pressure brought on India over its Russian oil imports is unfair.
India must look to source more oil from that country.
The fuss over India’s oil imports from Russia appears to be a case of “much ado about nothing”. Answering with ‘Perfection’ to one such question by the media in the US was External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Recently Jaishankar answering to a question said, “I noticed you referred to oil purchases. If you are looking at energy purchases from Russia I would suggest that your attention should be focused on Europe, which probably…We do buy energy which is necessary for our energy security, but I suspect looking at the figures probably ● our total purchases for the month would be less than what Europe does in an afternoon ● …so you might want to think about it.”
… “At a time when energy costs have spiked, clearly we need to ensure that the common person in India is not subject to an additional and unavoidable burden.”
… Last month, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri, answering a supplementary question in Parliament had said though India is buying more volumes of crude oil from Russia, but it is ● still less than 1 per cent of the total oil imports ● while the volumes from the US will rise significantly.
… As per Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell (PPAC), India’s major sources of crude oil imports are Iraq, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Nigeria and USA. Indian oil and gas Public Sector Undertakings had imported approximately less than one per cent of its total crude oil import from Russia in the year 2021-2022 (till January). India imported only 0.419 million tonnes of crude oil from Russia, as compared to overall crude oil imports of 175.900 million tonnes.” …
