US Assistant Secretary of State expressed concern over the growing relations between India and Russia
Washington: Apna Punjab Media: America is disappointed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia while he was hosting the NATO summit here. A senior official of the US State Department told this to the lawmakers. America’s Assistant Secretary of State and American lawmakers have expressed concern over the growing India-Russia relations. It is noteworthy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Russia on an official visit on July 8-9 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin for the 22nd India-Russia Summit. This was Modi’s first visit to Russia after the start of the war with Ukraine. India has not yet criticized Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022 and has consistently advocated resolution of the conflict through dialogue and diplomacy. “I completely agree with you about the disappointment in the symbolism and timing of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Russia,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu told US lawmakers at a congressional meeting. We are talking to our Indian friends. He was responding to a question from Joe Wilson, former co-chair of the Caucus of Indian-Americans on India. He said, “I am shocked and saddened to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom I respect and admire so much, embracing war criminal Putin in Moscow on the same day that Putin deliberately fired missiles into Kiev, Ukraine.” The largest hospital in India was tainted. He said, “India should become a ray of light and not depend on dictatorship.” What can be done to make India less dependent on inferior Russian weapons and cheap goods? And we know that the financing of the crude that is being bought is going to kill the people of Ukraine.
