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Administration 'proud' of India aid effort: WH national security adviser

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Administration 'proud' of India aid effort: WH national security adviser

As India continues to grapple with a fresh surge of coronavirus instances, White House national safety advisor Jake Sullivan stated on ABC's"This Week" Sunday that despite bipartisan criticism of the answer, the Biden administration is"proud" of their aid efforts to date .

"We are proud of what we've done so much that has included multiple plane loads -- and we are talking very large military airplane tons of supplies -- such as oxygen, such as diverting raw materials such as vaccines, such as therapeutics that can help save lives, and we are continuing to work to supply added critical materials to move them as fast as we can," Sullivan explained.

Sullivan added that the U.S. was worried regarding the variants and spread of the virus, and"all of the secondary effects which emerge as this pandemic rages out of control in India."

Sullivan said the administration is optimistic there could be movement on the issues in the near future.

"We think that the pharmaceutical firms should be supplying at scale and include cost to the entire world so that there is no barrier to everybody getting vaccinated.

Sullivan on"This Week" also discussed ongoing negotiations with Iran to re-engage in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Despite Iran's deputy foreign minister reportedly saying an agreement had been met to lift economic sanctions to bring the parties closer to an arrangement, Sullivan stated that was not the case.

"We've not yet reached agreement in Vienna," Sullivan told Raddatz.

"There is still acceptable distance to visit close the remaining gaps, and those openings are over what sanctions the United States and other nations will roll back," he continued. "They are over what atomic restrictions Iran will accept on its own program to ensure that they can not ever get a nuclear weapon. And our diplomats will keep working at that within the coming weeks to try to arrive at a mutual return to the JCPOA, which is that the Iran nuclear bargain, on a compliance-for-compliance basis"

The White House recently announced their months-long review of North Korean policy has been completed, and while the objective has been a totally denuclearized Korean Peninsula,'' Biden won't"rely on strategic patience," a word that defined the Obama-era approach.

While the Biden government hasn't provided full details, on Sunday Raddatz pressed Sullivan on how the new approach would bring another outcome, given that the four previous administrations failed to reach denuclearization.

"Our policy towards North Korea isn't geared toward hostility, it's aimed toward solutions. It's aimed at ultimately achieving the complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," Sullivan said.

"We believe that rather than all-for-all or nothing-for-nothing, a more calibrated, functional, measured approach stands the best chance of really moving the ball down the field towards lessening the challenge posed by... North Korea's nuclear program," he explained.

Following Biden called North Korea a serious safety threat, the country warned the U.S. will confront a"grave situation."

"Do you think you'll see a missile launch or long-range missile launch in the coming days?" Raddatz asked.

"I'm not likely to get at the company of forecasting that," Sullivan explained. "I'm in the business of being ready to respond, if in fact they do this in concert with our allies and partners and we'll certainly be ready for that should it happen.

He also declined to define exactly what the U.S. response is to missile launches.

"I shall say that we'll convey clearly to North Korea our concern about the capacity for provocations along with other actions that may destabilize the region," he said.

During his joint address to Congress Wednesday night, the president made the case because of his sweeping, $2.3 trillion dollar infrastructure policy as not only a proposal to create tasks, but a way to increase American competitiveness together with adversaries like China.

But the policy has obtained pushback from Republicans and even some moderate Democrats in the Senate such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

"What does it imply for our competition against China, in the event the president can not access his infrastructure and tasks plans through Congress?" Raddatz asked.

"The number one thing we can do to accomplish that would be to invest in ourselves, in our infrastructure, in our own innovation, in our manufacturing, in our people," Sullivan said.

"That is not just great for our economic security, it is good for our national security. And it is critical, from my standpoint as national security advisor, to make the situation to Republicans and Democrats alike that this is in the national security interest," he continued.

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