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

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As India struggles with second wave of COVID-19, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan tells MarthaRaddatz that the U.S. is 'continuing to work to source additional critical materials...and also galvanizing partners around the world.'

, including therapeutics that can help save lives, and we are continuing to work to source additional critical materials to move them as fast as we can," Sullivan said.and spread of the virus, as well as"all of the secondary effects that emerge as this pandemic rages out of control in India.

Sullivan said the administration is hopeful there would be movement on the issues in the near future."We believe that the pharmaceutical companies should be supplying at scale and add cost to the entire world so that there is no barrier to everyone getting vaccinated. Our ambassador, Katherine Tai, our U.S. trade representative, is engaged in intensive consultations at the WTO, to work through this issue, and we should have a way forward in the coming days," Sullivan said.

While the Biden administration hasn't provided full details, on Sunday Raddatz pressed Sullivan on how the new approach would bring a different outcome, given that the four previous administrations failed to achieve denuclearization. "Our policy towards North Korea is not aimed at hostility, it's aimed at 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, practical, measured approach stands the best chance of actually moving the ball down the field towards reducing the challenge posed by ... North Korea's nuclear program," he said.

 

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