India Doesn’t Need Crutches In Foreign Policy, Says Former Envoy Amid Trade Row With US | India News

Washington, DC: Among the ongoing trade tensions between India and the United States, India’s former Ambassador to France and Monako, Jenened Ashraf, Yeni Delhi did not have to rely on any country to manage the foreign affairs and should remain close to their own interests.

Ashraf rejected the idea that India should comply with the rival global blocks, “Hintans and India need to be in a camp or in another camp. Even if there are differences, we take care of each relationship with merit.

The statements came in the background of the last statement by US President Donald Trump, who claimed that Washington claimed that he had “lost India to China”. Later, Trump announced that Washington had “lost” India, but expressed his dissatisfaction with the new Delhi’s decisions on Russian oil purchases.

“I don’t think we’re. I was very disappointed that India would buy too much oil from Russia. I made them know it. We put a very big tariff in India, 50 percent, very high tariffs. As you know, I got a good deal with pm mod. The United States applied a 25 percent tariff to India, an additional 25 percent for the new Delhi’s Russian oil purchases.

Eşref, tensions in bilateral dialogue, while some of the latest statements “temperature lowering” said. “These are the first days. We still have to wait and watch. But we have seen in this statement, and some of the statements made in the last few days are a definite decrease in the temperature … We see this as a positive sign. But we still know that there is still a 50% recipe rate on Indian products … It has reached the fact that these things have reached.”

The former ambassador reminded that India has always followed an independent line, especially on sensitive regional issues. “Those who have a long history in the United States and India will always remember that India has always rejected the third -party mediation or any problem between India and Pakistan.” He said.

In India’s ties with Russia, Ashraf said that the West’s relationship with Moscow has been “full” for a long time before the Ukrainian War. He remembered that the US had previously pressured India’s S-400 from Russia, but the new Delhi stood and Washington was finally released.

“The US-Russian relations or Western relations with Russia were always full even before the Ukrainian War. There was pressure to not buy S-400 with the threat of secondary sanction deductions. We stopped on our ground. We could follow the United States. And the same thing was with oil.

Speaking about China, Ashraf said, “We had a complex relationship with China. This is our main geopolitical, economic and security difficulty. We have difficulties at binary, regional and global levels.”