{"id":515153,"date":"2022-08-18T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T04:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515153"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:44:52","slug":"jaishankar-justifies-indias-decision-to-buy-russian-oil-it-is-my-moral-duty-to-get-indians-the-best-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jaishankar-justifies-indias-decision-to-buy-russian-oil-it-is-my-moral-duty-to-get-indians-the-best-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaishankar justifies India\u2019s decision to buy Russian oil: \u2018It is my moral duty to get Indians the best deal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justifying India\u2019s decision to import Russian crude oil amidst the Ukraine war, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Wednesday that his moral duty is to ensure the best deal for Indians, most of whom cannot afford high energy prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been very honest about our interests. I have a country with a per capita income of $2,000. These aren\u2019t people who can afford higher energy prices. It is my obligation\u2026 my moral duty to ensure that I get them the best deal I can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking during an interaction with the Indian community in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justifying India\u2019s decision to import Russian crude oil amidst the Ukraine war, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Wednesday that his moral duty is to ensure the best deal for Indians, most of whom cannot afford high energy prices. \u201cWe have been very honest about our interests. I have a country with a per capita income of $2,000. These aren\u2019t people who can afford higher energy prices. It is my obligation\u2026 my moral duty to ensure that I get them the best deal I can,\u201d he said. He was speaking during an interaction with the Indian community in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}