'No such visit took place': MEA rubbishes report claiming Doval–Rubio meet before India-US trade deal

NEW DELHI: The ministry of outer affairs connected Thursday rebutted a Bloomberg study which claimed that National Security Adviser Ajit Doval had a gathering with US caput of authorities Marco Rubio earlier New Delhi And Washington reached an statement connected the commercialized deal.In a play property briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal called the study baseless and said that nary specified gathering took place."There is perfectly nary ground of that report. No specified gathering oregon sojourn took place," Jaiswal said.Also work | India won't beryllium bullied by Trump, Doval told Rubio; govt was consenting to hold retired US president's term, says reportEarlier connected Wednesday, quality outlet Bloomberg reported that Doval met Rubio successful September past twelvemonth and told him that Narendra Modi-led authorities was consenting to hold retired US President Donald Trump's word for the commercialized statement if Washington does not dial down nationalist disapproval of New Delhi.Doval besides reportedly told Rubio that India won't beryllium bullied by Trump oregon his apical aides.This comes aft the US President announced a commercialized woody with India connected Monday, slashing tariffs from 50 per cent to 18 per cent.“It was an Honor to talk with Prime Minister Modi, of India, this morning. He is 1 of my top friends and, a Powerful and Respected Leader of his Country. We spoke astir galore things, including Trade, and ending the War with Russia and Ukraine. He agreed to halt buying Russian Oil, and to bargain overmuch much from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela," Trump announced successful a societal media station connected Truth Social.Earlier connected Tuesday, Union commerce curate Piyush Goyal said that the "much-awaited commercialized deal" with the US has been successfully concluded.