Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday that India feels no “moral conflict” over buying oil from Russia.
Puri later emphasized that Russia is not one of India’s top oil suppliers. “In fact, the largest supplier last month was Iraq,” he noted.
Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, right, and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, pose for photographs as Putin arrives at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. “We owe our moral duty to consumers. We have a 1.3 billion population, and we have to ensure that they are supplied with energy, whether petrol or diesel,” he contended, repeating an argument he made when meeting with U.S. officials in Washington last month.
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