Australia says it will not buy Russian diesel despite US deal with Moscow

Australia will not take up Russian diesel after US President Donald Trump announced a supply deal with Vladimir Putin, Energy Minister Chris Bowen said, according to Australian Associated Press in The Canberra Times. Bowen said Australia neither needed nor wanted the fuel and that arrangements with trading partners are designed to stop Russian fuel reaching the country, a policy he said would not change. He called Washington's decision a matter for the US, but argued that Russia should not be rewarded for its invasion of Ukraine through arrangements prompted by the Middle East crisis. Trump had said the talks would immediately deliver 300,000 tonnes of diesel to US and global markets, with larger amounts to follow.

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