‘Uranium, crude oil, & coal’: Jaishankar on why trade with Russia is critical for India
New Delhi: The supply of energy resources—uranium, crude oil and coal—by Russia is extremely “important” for India and a “critical” pillar of ties between New Delhi and Moscow, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said Tuesday.
Addressing the 25th session of the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), the minister said the two countries would also be discussing cooperation critical for India’s food, energy and health security.
“Russia has emerged as a major source of fertilisers for us. Its supply of crude oil, coal and uranium are indeed important,” he said in the opening remarks at IRIGC-TEC, which the minister co-chaired with Russia’s rirst deputy prime minister, Denis Manturov, in New Delhi.
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