May travel to India next year, 'friend' PM Modi wants me to visit, says Trump

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said helium whitethorn question to India adjacent year, adding that PM Modi "wants" him to visit. "He's a person of mine, and we speak... He wants maine to spell there.

We volition fig that out. I volition go. I volition person a large travel determination with Prime Minister Modi, he's a large man. And I'll beryllium going," Trump said Thursday successful effect to a question.

Asked if the sojourn could hap adjacent year, Trump said, "It could be, yeah." India is owed to big the adjacent Quad acme with leaders from Australia, Japan, and US, aft the 2024 gathering successful Delaware. However, dates are yet to beryllium announced. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal successful New Delhi declined to remark connected the visit.

"I volition fto you cognize erstwhile I person (information)," Jaiswal said.

Trade talks with India person progressed, says Trump

On trade, Donald Trump claimed advancement successful talks with India and repeated his assertion that India had reduced lipid imports from Russia. "It's great, going good. He (PM Modi) stopped... Largely, helium stopped buying lipid from Russia," helium said. Trump had imposed 25% reciprocal tariffs connected India and an further 25% levy connected purchases of Russian oil, taking full levy to 50%.

India had called the measures "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable".

Trump besides revisited an oft-repeated claim: that helium stopped a warfare betwixt India and Pakistan utilizing tariffs. "Of the 8 wars I ended, 5 oregon six were ended due to the fact that of tariffs," helium said. "If you instrumentality a look astatine India and Pakistan, they started to combat - they are 2 atomic nations... And I said, 'Listen, if you guys are going to fight, I'm gonna enactment tariffs connected you.'

Within 24 hours, I settled the war. If I didn't person tariffs, I wouldn't person been capable to settee that war.

" Trump called tariffs a "great nationalist defence." On May 10, helium announced connected societal media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a "full and contiguous ceasefire" aft a "long night" of talks mediated by Washington. He has since repeated that assertion much than 60 times.