New Delhi, Mar 19 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today said that “de-dollarisation” is not a political issue, and India does not have a political agenda against the dollar, rather it is seen as a stabilisation issue for the global economy.
Amid US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on countries attempting to reduce their reliance on the US dollar, EAM Jaishankar, at the Raisina Young Fellows Alumni, giving India’s position on the issue of de-dollarisation said:
“De-dollarisation, this is not an ideological issue, it is not a national prestige issue, it’s a very practical economic issue. There are many countries today that are having problems trading, because they do not have access to hard currency.
“There are also concerns about the stability of the international economic order, and in which the most influential currency is obviously the…