Sergio Gor, nominated for the next US Ambassador in India, said on Thursday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that US President Donald Trump shared unique and close friendship with Prime Minister Modi.
He said, “Our President has a deep friendship with Prime Minister Modi, which is unique. If you noticed it when it goes on other nations, it tends to go to their leaders that they have placed us in this position and the United States depositing these tariffs.
He noted that President Trump recently appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response to his message about bilateral ties. “The President is also very personally involved. Just at the beginning of this week, Prime Minister Modi praised, who replied in nature,” Gor said.
At the beginning of this week, President Trump also repossed the remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Natural Partnership”.
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In response to President Trump’s contribution to social truth, PM Modi published on X that the business negotiations “prepare a way to unlock unlimited partnership potential in India”.
“India and the US are close to friends and natural partners. I am convinced that our business negotiations will prepare a way to release unlimited partnership potential in India and the US. Our teams are working to conclude these discussions first.
He also calls India “a strategic partner whose trajectory will form beyond the region,” he stressed that closer cooperation between the two countries would be central to face the growing influence of China.
“We are not so far apart on the agreement on these tariffs,” said Gor, close to Trump Aide, who is the director of the White House Presidential Office, said the Committee on the Senate Foreign Relations.
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Subsequent American administrations considered India a key strategic partner for the balance of the growing influence of China. According to Donald Trump, however, this relationship faced significant tension due to his aggressive business policy.
Efforts to negotiate lower tariffs collapsed when India, the fifth largest economy in the world, refused to open its large agricultural and dairy markets. Despite the annual bilateral trade exceeding $ 190 billion, tension escalated when Trump deposited another 25% tariff on Indian imports.
Later he announced plans to double these tariffs to 50% since August 27, in response to increased Indian purchases of Russian oil, which are considered undercutting the efforts of Washington on the isolation of Moscow in the middle of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Trump said on Tuesday that his administration continues to negotiate to deal with business barriers with India and that after weeks of diplomatic friction he will speak with modim, which is a sign of reset.
India and the US are close friends and natural partners.
Asked if he would commit to seek to ensure that the Quad Summit, which group India with Australia, Japan and the United States, will be held at the end of this year, Gor said, “without committing accurate data … The president is fully determined to continue meeting with the quad and strengthen.”
(With the entry from agencies)
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