Lavrov says Russia will 'no longer rely' on West for energy trade

Russia will no longer rely on partners in the West for its energy trade and its new energy policy will be oriented towards more reliable partners such as India and China, the Russian foreign minister said.

Sergey Lavrov who was in Delhi for the foreign ministers’ G20 meeting was speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, a multilateral conference, in capital New Delhi on Friday.

Mr Lavrov said: “The war which we are trying to stop was launched against us using Ukrainian people of course to influence the policy of Russia, including the energy policy.

“And the blunt way to describe what the change is: we would no longer rely on any partners in the west. We would not allow them to blow the pipelines again.”

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