Reaching New Heights: Allies in the Indo-Pacific Region
India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Led by:
Maithreyi Seetharaman
Friday 03.06.2022
Tell me Russian gas not funding the war? It's only Indian money, oil coming to India that funds (the war) and not gas coming to Europe? Asks Jaishankar; says, "Why are Iranian, and Venezuelan oil not allowed in the international market"rejected the argument that if India wants the world to speak up when China harms its interests, then it must speak up in favour of Ukraine. He said that China-India standoff happened way before the Ukraine issue. Jaishankar said that Europe has to grow out of the mindset that its problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.
Tell me Russian gas not funding the war? It's only Indian money, oil coming to India that funds (the war) and not gas coming to Europe? Asks Jaishankar; says, "Why is Iranian and Venezuelan oil not allowed in the international market"
When the moderator asked him who India will side with - US or China - in case it has to pick a side, the minister added: “I don’t accept that India has to join either the US axis or China axis. We are one-fifth of the world’s population, fifth or sixth largest economy in the world…we are entitled to weigh our own side."
