WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will nearly meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the White House said, at a time when the United States has made clear it doesn’t want to see a supplement in Russian energy significances by India.
“ President Biden will continue our close consultations on the consequences of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine and mollifying its destabilizing impact on global food force and commodity requests,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Sunday.
Daleep Singh, US Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics, who visited India lately, said the United States won’t set any “ red line” for India on its energy significance from Russia but doesn’t want to see a “ rapid-fire acceleration” in purchases.
Allured by steep abatements following Western warrants on Russian realities, India has bought at least 13 million barrels of Russian crude canvas since the country raided Ukraine in late February. That compared with some 16m barrels for the total of last time, data collected by Reuters shows.
Biden has preliminarily said that only India among the Quadrangle group of countries was “ kindly shaky” in acting against Russia over its irruption of Ukraine. The South Asian nation has tried to balance its ties with Russia and the West but unlike other members of the Quadrangle countries — the United States, Japan, and Australia — it has not assessed warrants on Russia.
