WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is asking New Delhi to use its "leverage" with Moscow to call out Russia's aggression against Ukraine, while asserting that principles undergirding Quad -- a rules-based international order -- are universal.
Amid a flurry of foreign office visits to India's capital, including that of US Deputy National Secretary Daleep Singh and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, the State Department a acknowledged India's right to proximate ties with Russia, while suggesting this is precisely why it could use its leverage the relationship to get Moscow to relent on its aggression against Ukraine.
