Pressuring India about energy cooperation with Russia is wrong: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

United Nations: Apna Punjab Media: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that India is a great power, which determines its own national interests and chooses its partners. He described the ‘extreme pressure’ on New Delhi regarding energy cooperation with Moscow as completely unfair. The Russian Foreign Minister described Ukraine’s comments on the recent summit between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Moscow as ‘outrageous’ during a press conference here on Wednesday.

Lavrov said, “I believe that India is a great power, which determines its own national interests and chooses its own partners. We know that more pressure is being put on India at the international level, which is completely unfair. Lavrov said that Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar had to answer many questions during his visit to Western countries, one of which was why India. Buying more oil from Russia. Russia holds the presidency of the United Nations Security Council in July. Lavrov is in New York to chair the council meetings.

Prime Minister Modi paid an official visit to Russia on July 8-9 at the invitation of President Putin for the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit. This was Modi’s first visit to Russia after the Russia-Ukraine war. India has not yet condemned the Russian attack on Ukraine. However, he has been advocating resolving the issue through dialogue and diplomatic means. Remember that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had criticized Modi’s visit to Moscow. Zelensky said in a post on X that at a time when Russia has targeted Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital with missiles, the presence in Moscow of the leader of the world’s largest democracy is a major disappointment. However, India had expressed its displeasure to Kiev against Zaleski’s comments.