The United States (US) State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller has said that India is a strategic partner with whom it engages in a full and frank dialogue, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Miller said 'I will look to Prime Minister Modi's public remarks to see what he talked about. But as I said, we made quite clear directly with India our concerns about their relationship with Russia. So we would hope India and any other country, when they engage with Russia, would make clear that Russia should respect the UN charter, should respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity’.
He noted that India has been stoutly defending its 'special and privileged strategic partnership' with Russia and maintained the momentum in the ties notwithstanding the Ukraine conflict. India has not yet condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and consistently pitched for a resolution of the conflict through dialogue and diplomacy.
