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NEW DELHI: The ministry of outer affairs (MEA) connected Friday deed retired astatine Nato main Mark Rutte implicit his caller remark claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Russian president Vladimir Putin aft the US tariff move. In a strongly-worded reply, the MEA termed the remark "factually incorrect" and "entirely baseless".MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal intelligibly stated that "at nary constituent has PM Modi spoken to Putin successful the mode suggested." He said that "we expect person of specified such large organisation to workout greater responsibility". "These are speculative and careless remarks," helium said.Earlier, Nato main Mark Rutte backed US President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs connected India saying that the measures person already had an interaction connected the warfare successful Ukraine.
He claimed that PM Modi dialled Putin aft Trump's enactment and asked him astir Ukraine plan. Speaking connected the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, Rutte was asked whether Trump would really enforce sanctions, fixed his past of rolling deadlines. “He already did. We person seen not the large ones, the large 1 connected India,” Rutte said. “Yes, but I’m talking astir connected Russia. Yeah, but this, this instantly impacts Russia due to the fact that that means that Delhi is present connected the telephone with Vladimir, Vladimir with Putin successful Moscow and Narendra Modi asking, hey, I enactment you, but again, could you explicate to maine this strategy? Because I person present been deed by, by these 50% tariffs by the United States. So President Trump is implementing what helium says, but of course, we are not blessed that truthful acold we person not been capable collectively to extremity the war.
But and helium is moving connected it,” helium added.