{"id":14990,"date":"2023-06-14T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14990"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T07:31:53","slug":"countries-free-to-decide-about-discounted-oil-imports-from-russia-us-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/06\/14\/countries-free-to-decide-about-discounted-oil-imports-from-russia-us-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries free to decide about discounted oil imports from Russia: US Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Countries free to decide about discounted oil imports from Russia: US Spokesperson <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Spokesperson, asked to comment on Pakistan\u2019s purchase of discounted Russian oil in Chinese currency, said Tuesday that each country has to make its own choices with respect to its energy imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say, first of all, with respect to that transaction, we have been very clear that each country has to make its own choices based on its own circumstances in terms of energy imports,\u201d State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said in response to a question at his daily press briefing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that I think is notable about that is that \u2013 our understanding is that Russian oil was sold at a significant discount to market rates,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he said it was a sign that the price cap the U.S. imposed on Russian oil has driven down the price for Russian oil, as a result of which it sells well below market prices.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of that strategy, Miller added, \u201cRussia has been prevented from making an additional 100 billion dollars which it could have used in its war machine against Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further asked whether Pakistan consulted with the U.S. before the deal, he said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to speak to any private diplomatic conversations, other than to say that we consult with partners all around the world on these questions, but \u2026 we understand that these are choices that every country must make for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources &amp; Courtesy: APP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries free to decide about discounted oil imports from Russia: US Spokesperson &nbsp; A U.S. Spokesperson, asked to comment on Pakistan\u2019s purchase of discounted Russian oil in Chinese currency, said Tuesday that each country has to make its own choices with respect to its energy imports. \u201cI would say, first of all, with respect to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298,2309,2299],"tags":[2982,2983,2332,2828,2632],"class_list":["post-14990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-world","tag-matthew-miller","tag-oil","tag-russia","tag-spokesperson","tag-us"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14993,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14990\/revisions\/14993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}