Why single out India for restrictions, asks Goyal

INDIA ON FRIDAY questioned “selective exemptions” from sanctions by the US on buying oil from Russian companies, while singling out India for penal tariffs and indicated that decisions like sanctions have to be taken by the world as a whole.

- MUKESH JAGOTA

“Germany is asking for exemption from US sanctions on oil. The UK probably has already got an exemption on procuring oil (from sanctioned Russian companies). Why single out India?” Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said in his intervention at the Berlin Global Dialogue.