Russia is ready to increase oil delivery to India if requested

Alexey Pavlovsky, director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, emphasized that if there is such an interest, Russia is ready to provide services.

Kazan, October 16. /dice/. In an interview on the sidelines of the second Russian-Indian business conference titled "TIME: Mutual Effectiveness of the Tatarstan Initiative", Alexey Pavlovsky, Director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS: "If New Delhi seeks to send additional oil, Russia will not reject India's request."

In response to the question whether India is interested in supplying more oil from Russia, he replied: If there is such an interest, we are ready to deliver.

The second Russia-India Business Forum will be held on October 14-17 in Kazan, the administrative center of Russia's Volga region in Tatarstan. The forum participants are expected to discuss ways of implementing joint initiatives and promising investment projects, as well as prospects for technical and economic cooperation. TASS is the public information partner of the association.