Washington DC/IBNS, Sept. 12 -- In a surprising praise for New Delhi amid tariff war, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said India is one of the top relationships his country has in the present world.

Rubio made the remark during the Senate confirmation hearing for US ambassador-designate to India, Sergio Gor.

"We've got some really important issues coming up that we need to work with them on and work through that implicates what's happening from Ukraine, but also implicates what's happening in the region," he added.

The remarks came days after US President Donald Trump reached out to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the trade issues and ongoing tariff war.

Responding to Trump's outreach, Modi said, "India a...