India: US urges India to use influence with Russia after 'abstain stain'

NEW DELHI, 27 February 2022, (TON): The United States is urging India to use its influence with Russia to protect the rules-based international order, after some disappointment mixed with understanding in Washington over New Delhi not coming in full and vocal support of western alliance's views on the Ukraine issue.

Asked if the Ukrainian crisis had strained India-US ties in the context of New Delhi good ties with both Russia and US, State Department spokesman Ned Price expressed Washington's understanding of India's relationship with Moscow that is distinct from the one the US has.

US has shared with India its fervent belief that countries around the world, especially those countries that have a level of influence, of clout, of leverage with the Russian Federation needed to use that to good effect needed to use that to protect the rules-based international order.

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