India said Thursday its import policies are guided entirely to safeguard the interests of the Indian consumer in a volatile energy scenario after US President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured him that New Delhi would stop purchasing Russian oil.

Without getting into the specifics of a conversation between PM Modi and Trump, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Randhir Jaiswal, said India and the US are discussing increasing energy procurement from America.

However, the MEA spokesperson did not confirm or deny whether a conversation took place between Modi and President Trump on Wednesday, since Trump claimed he spoke with the Prime Minister. And neither did he address the specific claim that PM Modi had assured him o

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