US President Joe Biden on Monday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it was not in India’s interest to “accelerate or increase” its oil purchase from Russia and was willing to help New Delhi further diversify its energy imports, the White House said.<\/p>\n
Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Modi, which was “constructive” and “productive” and their interaction was “not adversarial,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.<\/p>\n
The virtual meeting between the two leaders came in the midst of some disquiet in Washington over India’s position on the Ukraine crisis as well as its decision to procure discounted Russian oil. The Modi-Biden virtual meeting lasted for about an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US President Joe Biden on Monday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that it was not in India’s interest to “accelerate or increase” its oil purchase from Russia and was willing to help New Delhi further diversify its energy imports, the White House said. Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting with Prime Minister Modi, which was “constructive” and “productive” and their interaction was “not adversarial,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. The virtual meeting between the two leaders came in the midst of some disquiet in Washington over India’s position on the Ukraine crisis as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}