LONDON: It’s time for Britain to have tough conversations with India over shopping for oil from Russia, friends mentioned in Home of Lords this week, as anger mounted over the dying of Russian chief Alexei Navalny.
“It’s painful to see many pleasant international locations sharing a stage with the Russian overseas minister, assembly Vladimir Putin, liaising and buying and selling with the Russian govt and supplying them with items.We nonetheless should take care of them, after all, however they’re coping with a govt of thugs,” Lord Jeremy Purvis of Tweed mentioned in direct criticism of India throughout a debate about Navalny’s dying.
He referred to as for sanctions to be utilized to the entire military-industrial complicated in Russia. “That can imply us having tough conversations with these pleasant nations that I referred to, together with India…, with regard to the rupee-ruble swap for buying and selling in oil for practically two years now,” he added.
Dame Margaret Hodge referred in Home of Commons to a “loophole” that permit international locations akin to China and India import Russian crude oil, course of it after which promote it to the UK as refined oil. “In 2023 we despatched one thing like £141 million in tax income to the Kremlin’s warfare chest,” she mentioned.
“It’s painful to see many pleasant international locations sharing a stage with the Russian overseas minister, assembly Vladimir Putin, liaising and buying and selling with the Russian govt and supplying them with items.We nonetheless should take care of them, after all, however they’re coping with a govt of thugs,” Lord Jeremy Purvis of Tweed mentioned in direct criticism of India throughout a debate about Navalny’s dying.
He referred to as for sanctions to be utilized to the entire military-industrial complicated in Russia. “That can imply us having tough conversations with these pleasant nations that I referred to, together with India…, with regard to the rupee-ruble swap for buying and selling in oil for practically two years now,” he added.
Dame Margaret Hodge referred in Home of Commons to a “loophole” that permit international locations akin to China and India import Russian crude oil, course of it after which promote it to the UK as refined oil. “In 2023 we despatched one thing like £141 million in tax income to the Kremlin’s warfare chest,” she mentioned.
