‘Double Standards’: India Reacts To NATO Chief’s Sanction Threat Over Russia Ties | India News

New Delhi: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) strongly responded strongly to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s latest statements on countries such as India, China and Brazil if they maintain trade relations with Russia. MEA stressed that the protection of India’s energy security remains the first priority and that international expectations are warned against “double standards ..

Mea spokesman Randhir Jaiswal, on Thursday in the new Delhi’deki weekly press briefing “We have seen reports on the subject and follow the developments closely,” he said. “Let me repeat that it is an understandable priority for us to secure the energy needs of our people.”

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Jaiswal clarified India’s position, without directing NATO or the USA. “In this effort, we are turning to those present in the markets and at the same time by global conditions. We have paid attention especially against any double standards on the subject,” he said.

Jaiswal’s comments called at a press conference in Washington, together with US senators Thom Tillis and Jeanne Shaheen, called NATO chief Mark Rutte to break his economic ties with Moscow. If Russia refused to enter the peace negotiations, the authority warned that it may cause the scope of secondary sanctions.

“I don’t encourage these three countries, especially if you live in Beijing or Delhi, or if you are the president of the Brazil, you may want to take a look at it, because it can hit you a lot,” he said.

He called on the effects of three countries with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Please make a phone call to Vladimir Putin and tell him that he should be serious about peace talks, otherwise this will return to Brazil, India and China in a great way,” he warned.

Rutte’s words repeated the last position by former US President Donald Trump, who threatened upright tariffs in the countries that were on trading with Russia at the beginning of this week. Trump has also announced a largely large military aid packages for Ukraine, financed by European allies, including air defense systems, ammunition and missiles.

In a dramatic ultimatum, Trump gave Russia a 50 -day deadline for entering what he calls “serious peace negotiations, and threatened full -scale secondary sanctions if the Kremlin could not move. His statement, after saying Putin’s “nonsense” stance before, followed the days of speculation on a “surprise” promised on the Russian-Ukraine front.

India’s firm stance reinforces the new Delhi’s insistence on strategic autonomy and national interest -oriented diplomacy in the midst of the changing geopolitical landscape, pointing to the increase in resistance to Western pressure on Russian policy.