After US President Donald Trump, India imposed an unspecified punishment in response to her trade in Russia for oil, the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio called India an “strategic ally” in terms of global trade; However, he noted that it was unrealistic to expect that two countries or allies would agree on everything in foreign policy.
“Look, global trade – India is an ally. He is a strategic partner. Like anything in foreign policy, you will not equal 100 percent of time for everything,” Fox quoted the American Foreign Minister.
Although he responded to a question concerning the Trump announcement of a 25 % tariff in India, including another punishment for buying Russian military equipment and energy, Rubio said that India has “huge energy needs and this includes the ability to buy oil and coal and gas and the things it needs in many cases like any country and buys it from Russia. It is from Russia, and in many cases, at a global price, and that it sells them, and that is that it sells them for selling them at a global price.
He added: “Unfortunately, it helps to maintain Russian war efforts. So it is definitely a point of irritation in our relationship with India – not the only point of irritation. We also have many other points of cooperation with them.
Rubio mentioned: “But I think what you see the President is very clear that with so many other available oil suppliers, India continues to buy so much from Russia, which basically helps to finance war efforts” and allow this war not to stop in Ukraine.
India and Russia are “dead economies”, says Trump
Although Trump expressed displeasure over trade in India-Russia, he claimed that as “dead economies”, he stressed that he did not care about what India was doing with Russia, because she always “bought the vast majority of her military equipment from Russia and they are the largest Russian merchant energy, along with China, when everyone wants to kill in Ukraine-well!”
India claimed that it would have all the required steps to protect and promote national interests and that tariff results were evaluated.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday, “the government took note of the statement of the US President of bilateral trade. The government is studying its consequences. India and the US have committed themselves in the last few months.”
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