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NEW DELHI: The ministry of outer affairs connected Friday rejected caller claims by Donald Trump, declaring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President "share a affable narration based connected communal respect."Addressing the play media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "Prime Minister Modi and President Trump person a affable narration and person ever addressed each different with communal respect arsenic per diplomatic norms."
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The connection came successful effect to remarks made by Trump earlier this week astatine the House GOP Member Retreat, wherever helium claimed that PM Modi had personally raised concerns with him implicit delays successful the transportation of US-made Apache onslaught helicopters and had addressed him arsenic "sir" .Trump said, "Prime Minister Modi came to spot me, ‘Sir, whitethorn I spot you please’," claiming PM Modi sought a gathering to emblem the dilatory gait of chopper deliveries. The US president has often claimed that everyone, including overseas leaders (except Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping) addresses him arsenic "sir."
He further alleged that India had ordered 68 Apache helicopters and had been waiting for years for delivery. However, arsenic per authoritative records India has lone ordered a full of 28 AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters from the United States, each of which had been delivered by December 2025.
The procurement took spot successful 2 abstracted phases and not arsenic a azygous ample order. India has besides purchased 15 CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters from Boeing, delivered betwixt 2019 and 2020.Even erstwhile combined, the 2 deals relationship for 43 helicopters, not 68. There is nary grounds with India’s Ministry of Defence oregon nether US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) of immoderate further Apache orders, earlier TOI reported.Trump's remarks look to exaggerate figures and timelines, a signifier critics accidental is communal successful his nationalist statements.
He has repeatedly claimed that helium forced India and Pakistan into a truce by threatening tariffs arsenic different example.The MEA, however, constricted its effect to reaffirming the quality of ties betwixt the 2 leaders, stressing communal respect and established diplomatic norms. It besides rejected remarks by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that "PM Modi’s reluctance to telephone Trump" had delayed a US-India commercialized deal, calling them "inaccurate." Jaiswal noted that, "PM Modi and President Trump person spoken connected 8 occasions successful 2025."
