US President Joe Biden on Friday said he had a “very good” relationship with India And he’s visited the country twice, since he left on a weekend trip to his home in Delaware. The president told reporters at the White House that he had been briefed about three Americans missing in Ukraine.
“I don’t know where they are. But I want to reiterate. Americans should not go to Ukraine. I say it again. Americans should not go to Ukraine, he said. In response to a question on India, Biden said “I have been to India twice and will be back. I have very good relations (with India).”
Biden’s remarks were followed by State Department spokesman Ned Price saying the US is to India and reiterated that New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow evolved over decades when Washington was “not ready or willing to be a partner of choice” for the Indian government. was not able”. Price was responding to a question whether the US was in talks with Indian officials as India and other Asian countries continue to be a significant source of oil revenue for sanctions-hit Russia despite strong US pressure.
“We’ve had a lot of discussions with our Indian partners and the point we’ve made is that every country will have a different relationship with Moscow,” Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Thursday. Recent industry data showed that Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become India’s second largest oil supplier after Iraq, as refiners buy Russian crude available at huge discounts after the war in Ukraine. take.
India, the world’s third largest oil importer and consumer, has long defended crude oil purchases from Russia after President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine. The oil ministry said last month that “energy purchases from Russia are very low compared to India’s total consumption”. Price said India’s relations with Russia have evolved over several decades. “It developed during decades when the United States was not ready or able to be the partner of choice for the Indian government,” he said.
“That has changed. This is the legacy of a bipartisan tradition that has been going on for more than two decades now. It really goes back to the Clinton administration, certainly to the George W. Bush administration, where the United States has sought partnership. With India, India has sought to be the partner of choice, including when it comes to the security sector,” he said. Price said this is not a partnership built over the course of days, weeks or months.
“I mentioned earlier that India’s relations with Russia were built over several decades, as countries re-orient their relations with Moscow, as we have seen many of them do. It will be a gradual process ,” he said in response to one. Question. “But throughout all of this, we have made it clear to our Indian partners that we are there for them. We are ready and capable, and willing to partner with them. And we have done just that,” Price said.
“Of course, we had a ‘2+2’ dialogue with our Indian partners long ago. We will see the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Once again in terms of I2U2, the arrangements we have with India with the United Arab Emirates and Israel involve India in a number of partnerships, including of course the Quad. This administration has sought to revive the group, and it has done so at very high levels,” the official said. To reactivate and revive American alliances globally, the US, the United Arab Emirates, India and Israel has formed a new grouping called I2- U2. The four countries in the new grouping will hold their first virtual summit next month.
The quad includes Japan, India, Australia and the United States. The four countries had shaped the quadrilateral alliance in 2017 to counter China’s aggressive behavior in the Indo-Pacific region.
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