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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed confidence that India will be able to work with whoever becomes the next president of the United States.
“Generally, we don’t comment on other people’s elections because we also hope others don’t comment on us. But the American system will throw up its verdict. And, I’m not saying this just as a formality, but if you look over the last 20-odd years, maybe a little bit more for us, we have every confidence that we will be able to work with the president of the United States, whoever he or she will be,” he said while speaking at the launch of the ‘Indiaspora BCG Impact Report’ as reported by PTI .
He noted that the world today is going through a difficult period and pointed towards the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. “Generally, we don’t comment on other people’s elections because we also hope others don’t comment on us. But the American system will throw up its verdict. And, I’m not saying this just as a formality, but if you look over the last 20-odd years, maybe a little bit more for us, we have every confidence that we will be able to work with the president of the United States, whoever he or she will be,” he said while speaking at the launch of the ‘Indiaspora BCG Impact Report’ .
He noted that the world today is going through a difficult period and pointed towards the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Israel.
“I’m an optimistic person and generally tend to think of solutions to problems rather than the problems that come out of solutions. But I would say with a great deal of sobriety, that we are going through an exceptionally difficult period,” he said.
He added that it would be a very grim forecast for the next five years. ”You have what you see happening in the Middle East, what you see happening in Ukraine, what you see happening in Southeast Asia, East Asia, the continued impact of the COVID which those of us who have come out of it take for granted, but many have not come out of it,” Dr Jaishankar said.
