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NEW DELHI: The ministry of outer affairs connected Friday termed the remarks made by US caput of commerce Howard Lutnick that “PM Modi’s reluctance to telephone Trump” was the crushed down the hold successful the commercialized woody betwixt the United States and India, arsenic “inaccurate.
”In a media briefing MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “PM Modi and President Trump person spoken connected 8 occasions successful 2025.”
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While responding to a question astir the claims made by Lutnick successful a podcast wherever helium had blamed the hold successful the US-India commercialized statement connected New Delhi, saying that the States waited for PM Modi's telephone for excessively long, Jaiswal dismissed the claims arsenic “inaccurate characterizations.”He mentioned the aggregate rounds of dialog betwixt the 2 countries and however connected respective occasions a “deal was close.”Also read: Between the staircase and the see-saw; Did PM Modi’s reluctance to telephone Trump outgo India a commercialized deal?“We person seen the remarks, India and the United States were committed to a bilateral commercialized statement arsenic acold backmost arsenic February 13, 2025. Since some sides person had aggregate rounds of negotiations to get astatine a mutually beneficial deal. On respective occasions we person been adjacent to a deal. The characterisation of these discussions successful reported remarks is not accurate,” Jaiswal said.
He further went connected to accidental India remains committed to a mutually ‘beneficial’ commercialized agreement, besides rebutting Lutnick's claims.
“We stay committed to mutually beneficial woody betwixt 2 complementary economies. Incidentally, PM Modi and President Trump person spoken connected 8 occasions successful 2025, covering antithetic aspects of our wide ranging partnership,” helium said.Speaking astatine the All-In Podcast, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Lutnick said, "Let's beryllium clear, it's his deal. He's the closer. He does the deal. So I said, you got to person Modi.
It's each acceptable up. You person to person Modi...they were uncomfortable doing it."Also read: ‘Hug hug na raha’- Congress takes excavation astatine PM Modi; reacts to stalled India–US commercialized deal "So Modi didn't call," helium claimed. This connection comes aft US President connected Thursday, approved a measure that tin enforce astatine slightest 500 per cent tariffs for countries buying Russian oil, aiming to "punish them." US legislator Lindsey Graham said that the measure would springiness US tremendous leverage against countries similar China, India and Brazil to incentivize them to halt buying the inexpensive Russian oil.
