United States President Donald Trump spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sergio Gor, US Ambassador to India, said in a post on X on Monday, February 2. Sergio Gor said: “President Trump just spoke with PM Modi. STAY TUNED…”
Sergio Gor said this in a short post on social media without sharing details. The phone conversation between Trump and PM Modi also took place on a day when External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar began a three-day visit to Washington.
This came just hours after Donald Trump announced that India would buy Venezuelan oil. Earlier in the day, Donald Trump said: “India is coming and will be buying Venezuelan oil, as opposed to buying from Iran. We’ve already made a deal, the concept of that deal.”
The US President also released a picture of a magazine cover featuring him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the caption “The Mover and The Shaker”.
The United States is set to import the most Venezuelan oil in a year after the Trump administration moved to control the country’s energy supply and pushed oil companies to invest $100 billion in rebuilding the country’s oil infrastructure.
Yet as the US becomes the biggest recipient of Venezuelan oil after Maduro’s capture, supplies to China – which averaged 400,000 barrels a day last year – fell to zero in January amid a US naval crackdown on the so-called dark fleet of vessels used to transport sanctioned oil to China.