New Delhi: Iran has asked India to buy oil from them despite the sanctions imposed by Donald Trump in 2019. “The Print” reported that Iran has also asked to adopt the method of buying oil from Russia despite the sanctions announced by the United States.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi could raise the issue with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting held at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan’s historic city of Samarkand on 15 and 16 September. The summit is also attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and others.
India stopped importing oil from Iran after the Donald Trump administration lifted the sanctions in 2019. Iran denied that the sanctions were unilateral and not at the request of the UN. Outgoing Iranian Ambassador to India Ali Shegheni Foreign Minister S. This issue was raised during the meeting with Jaishankar last week. India was just behind China in importing oil from Iran.
After the war in Ukraine, Western countries, including the United States, imposed an embargo on oil imports against Russia. However, India continued to import despite this. Not only that, the import of Russian oil to India has increased 50 times since the US embargo. These are the data since last April. Russia is currently one of India’s top 10 oil buyers. In this way, Iran wants to ignore US unilateral sanctions against it.
In June 2022, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussain Amir Abdullahiyan also raised this issue during his visit to India. During his meeting with Jaishankar and on the phone with Narendra Modi, he discussed issues related to the resumption of oil imports from Iran. In June, Jaishankar also questioned the non-lifting of the oil embargo on Iran.
Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization from the 15th; There will be 15 heads of state
Samarkand (Uzbekistan): the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit will be held on 15 and 16 September in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The leaders of the eight member states, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uzbekistan President Shaukat Mirzoyev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, President of Kazakhstan Kassym Tokayev, President Kyrgyzstan’s Sadir Japarov and the President of Tajikistan Imamali Rahman will be waiting.
In addition to this, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdi Muhammedov will be special guests and also Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and Mongolian President Uknagin Khurelsukh will be present as special guests. .
The bloc comprises eight countries representing 40% of the world population and over 30% of its GDP. Leaders from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in Shanghai, China on June 15, 2001 to form a new alliance with the goal of economic, security and environmental cooperation, and in June 2017 India and Pakistan were also included.
It is reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold special meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the summit. News agencies reported that he will also hold talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
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