New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar hit out at the US and the European Union (EU) Thursday for their “double standards”, warning that further punitive measures, such as sanctions and tariffs, “cannot facilitate peace”.

Speaking at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, he said, “Peace can certainly enable development, but by threatening development we cannot facilitate peace. Making energy and other essentials more uncertain in an economically fragile situation helps no one. Therefore, the way out is to move the needle towards dialogue and diplomacy, not in the opposite direction towards further complications.”

He added that in recent times “international peace and global development” have “deteriorated in parallel”, wit

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