Sanctions On India For Russia Deal "Extraordinarily Foolhardy": US Senator

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Washington: India is a critical ally of the United States and it would be “extraordinarily imprudent” to impose sanctions in New Delhi under Caatesa’s punitive law for its purchase of Russia’s Anti-Display S-400 defense system. Senator Republican senator said the Bidene administration.

The United States Administration is required in domestic law, counteract the opponents of America by the Sanctions Act (CAATSA) to impose sanctions on any country that has important transactions with Iran, Korea. North or Russia.

CAATSA is a continuous law of the United States which authorizes the administration to impose sanctions on countries that purchase the main defense of Russia in response to the annexation of the Crimea of Russia in 2014 and its alleged interference in the US presidential elections of 2016.

It is reported that the Biden Administration plans to impose sanctions of Caates against India, the greatest democracy of the Earth, a decision that I think is extraordinarily imprudent,” said Senator Ted Cruz at a hearing Waiting for applications pending applications through the powerful Senate External Relations Committee.

Senator Cruz, which represents the state of the TEXAS in the United States Senate, said that during the last week, bilateral relations between India and the United States deteriorated in the context of the Biden administration.

India is a critical ally through a number of areas and the American alliance has expanded and thorough in recent years. But under the administration of biden, he entered the back,” said Senator Cruz .

India is not the only country to have voted against us and to condemn Russia,” he said, with reference to the abstention of India in the United Nations General Assembly, vote condemning the aggression of Russia in Ukraine.

India faced Flak American legislators, both Republicans and Democrats, choose to abstain from UN Wednesday’s voting on the attack of Russia reprimanding in Ukraine.

In total, 141 nations voted in favor of the will to condemn the invasion of Russia from Ukraine and the five nations, with 35 countries, including India, refrain. The UNGA resolution was similar to that previously distributed in the 15 Nations Security Council on which India has also refrained.

The United Nations Security Council resolution, which received 11 votes in favor and three abstentions, was blocked after the permanent members, Russia exercised its veto.

The United Arab Emirates also abstained in the vote of yesterday. The water is a narrow alliance of the United States and during the Trump administration, was an essential player in the Abraham agreements that fundamentally transformed the whole From the Middle East and brought together Israelis and Arabs together under the American leadership, Senator Cruz said.