New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- India on Friday dismissed comments made by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal calling them "inaccurate and misleading statements."

Navarro, in an interview with Bloomberg Television last week, had alleged, "India is helping feed the Russian war machine. I mean Modi's war, because the road to peace runs, in part, through New Delhi."

Rejecting at a weekly briefing, Jaiswal said, "We have seen the inaccurate and misleading statements made by Navarro, and obviously, we reject them."

On ties with Washington, Jaiswal underlined the importance of the bilateral relationship. "We have also spoken about it earlier. This relationship between the U...