India wants US ties


President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rosas de la Casa's garden in Washington. – Reuters/file
  • United States Defense Team to visit New Delhi for military conversations.
  • Weapons purchases continue despite tension on high rates.
  • India says that ties with us have resisted the challenges in the past.

India said Thursday that he expected relations with the United States to advance according to mutual respect and shared interests, dealing with the temperature concerns that the ties were directed downhill after the high rates imposed by Washington.

An American defense policy will be in Nueva Delhi this month for conversations with Indian officials and their weapons from the US.

A new friendship built between the two countries has reached a bad condition after President Donald Trump raised tariffs on Indian goods to 50% last week from a previous 25% who said it was a penalty for the continuous imports of Russian oil in India.

Nueva Delhi has accused the United States of double ratings to highlight it for Russian oil imports and called unfair, unjustified and unreasonable rates.

At the same time, he has also indicated that the heating of ties that began in the change of the century covers a wide range of areas and should not be seen only through the prism of trade, although it expects commercial conversations to continue and result in an agreement.

“This association has resisted several transitions and challenges … and we hope that the relationship will continue to advance based on mutual respect and shared interests,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, Randhir Jaiswal, to a regular media information session.

Washington's military team purchases were ongoing, Jaiswal said, he added that an American defense policy in Delhi was expected this month.

Reuters He reported last week that India has put her plans on waiting to acquire new weapons and airplanes from the United States and that a planned trip to Washington by the Indian Minister of Defense had been canceled.

Subsequently, the Indian government said the reports of a pause in the conversations were wrong.



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