{"id":533513,"date":"2022-11-02T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533513"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T04:59:24","slug":"india-under-no-moral-conflict-on-buying-russian-oil-reiterates-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-under-no-moral-conflict-on-buying-russian-oil-reiterates-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"India under no moral conflict on buying Russian oil, reiterates Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday reiterated that India is under no moral conflict to stop buying oil from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question by CNN&#8217;s Becky Anderson who questioned Puri on whether India had &#8220;qualms&#8221; over purchasing so much from Russia, the minister said: &#8220;Absolutely none, there is no moral conflict, if somebody wants to take an ideological position&#8230;We don&#8217;t buy from X or Y, we buy whatever is available. I don&#8217;t do the buying, it&#8217;s the oil companies who do the buying.<\/p>\n<p>Puri defended India&#8217;s purchases stating that India only bought 0.2 per cent, not 2 per cent of Russian oil and it buys in a quarter what Europe buys in one afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday reiterated that India is under no moral conflict to stop buying oil from Russia. Responding to a question by CNN&#8217;s Becky Anderson who questioned Puri on whether India had &#8220;qualms&#8221; over purchasing so much from Russia, the minister said: &#8220;Absolutely none, there is no moral conflict, if somebody wants to take an ideological position&#8230;We don&#8217;t buy from X or Y, we buy whatever is available. I don&#8217;t do the buying, it&#8217;s the oil companies who do the buying. Puri defended India&#8217;s purchases stating that India only bought 0.2 per [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533513","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=533513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}