(28.08) The United States canceled the high level dialogue with India
The United States has canceled the high level dialogue scheduled for July with India. On July 6, the foreign and defense ministers of both countries were supposed to sit in this dialogue. On Wednesday, the United States canceled the dialogue 'for unavoidable reasons'. The Hindustan Times reported this news.
Only a week ago the date of the dialogue was announced by the US State Department. This caused uncertainty of several months. But on Thursday, India's foreign ministry spokesman Ravi Kumra said on Twitter, US Secretary of State Mike Pampo also spoke with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj. Pippe also expressed regret over the delay in the dialogue due to the inevitable reason.
However, there was no official formal comment on the US. The time to cancel the dialogue was made when US Secretary of State Nicky Halley is busy meeting India's top officials in New Delhi.
US-India relations are in complexity with US Shulkarsak and Iran to buy oil in the import of goods. On June 23, the Times of India said that India wants to buy one thousand civilian aircraft from the United States, despite trade warfare between the two countries, with the refund. India wants to increase oil and gas imports from the US For this, New Delhi has proposed to Washington.
It will cost $ 500 million to buy one thousand aircraft from the US and $ 400 billion in oil and gas imports This account is different from purchasing defense materials. Buying 12 Surveillance aircraft from the United States as a defense equipment.
India and the United States are working on a number of communications and security agreements. These contracts will be finalized in the next few months. But due to the cancellation of the dialogue, uncertainty has also signed the agreement.