US President Joe Biden Says His Relationship With India Is ‘Very Good’

New Delhi: US President Joe Biden mentioned on Friday mentioned that he shared a “excellent” relationship with India and has visited the nation twice, as he left on a weekend journey to his dwelling in Delaware.

The president informed reporters on the White Home that he had been briefed on the three People who’ve been lacking in Ukraine.

“I don’t know the place they’re. However I wish to reiterate. People shouldn’t be going to Ukraine. I say it once more. People shouldn’t be going to Ukraine,” he mentioned.

In response to a query on India, Biden mentioned, “I’ve been to India twice and can be again. My relationship with (India is) excellent”.

Biden’s remarks got here a day after State Division spokesperson Ned Worth mentioned the US is there for India and reiterated that New Delhi’s relationship with Moscow developed over a number of a long time when Washington was “not ready or in a position to be a companion of selection” for the Indian authorities.

Worth was responding to a query on whether or not the US was speaking with the Indian authorities as India and different Asian nations have gotten an more and more very important supply of oil revenues for sanctions-hit Russia, regardless of sturdy stress from America.

“Now we have had quite a lot of discussions with our Indian companions, and the purpose that now we have made is that each nation goes to have a distinct relationship with Moscow,” Worth informed reporters at his day by day information convention on Thursday.

Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to develop into India’s second-biggest provider of oil behind Iraq as refiners snap up Russian crude accessible at a deep low cost following the battle in Ukraine, trade knowledge confirmed just lately.

India, the world’s third-biggest oil-importing and consuming nation, has lengthy defended purchases of crude oil from Russia following President Vladimir Putin ordering the invasion of Ukraine. The oil ministry had final month acknowledged that “power purchases from Russia stay minuscule compared to India’s complete consumption.” Worth mentioned India’s relationship with Russia developed over a number of a long time.

“It developed over the course of a long time at a time when the USA was not ready or in a position to be a companion of selection for the Indian authorities,” he mentioned.

“That has modified. This can be a legacy of a bipartisan custom now that has been the case for greater than 20 years. It goes again actually to the Clinton administration, actually to the George W Bush administration, the place the USA has sought a partnership with India, has sought to be a companion of selection for India, together with relating to the safety realm,” he mentioned.

This isn’t a partnership constructed in the midst of days, weeks, or months, Worth mentioned.

“I discussed earlier than that India’s relationship with Russia was constructed up over the course of many a long time, as international locations reorient their relationship with Moscow, as now we have seen lots of them do. This can be a gradual course of,” he mentioned in response to a query.

“However all through all of it, now we have made clear to our Indian companions that we’re there for them. We’re prepared and ready, and prepared to companion with them. And we have executed simply that,” Worth mentioned.

“In fact, we had a ‘2+2’ dialogue with our Indian companions not too way back. We are going to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi as soon as once more within the context of the I2U2, the association now we have with the UAE and Israel, together with India, incorporating India into lots of the partnerships now we have, together with, after all, the Quad,” he mentioned.

“And that may be a group this administration has sought to revitalise, and it has executed so at very excessive ranges,” the official added.

To re-energise and revitalise American alliances globally, the US, UAE, India and Israel have shaped a brand new grouping known as I2-U2. The 4 international locations within the new grouping will maintain their first digital summit subsequent month.

Quad includes Japan, India, Australia and the USA.

The 4 international locations in 2017 had given form to the Quadrilateral coalition to counter China’s aggressive behaviour within the Indo-Pacific area.