Trump once again claims credit for brokering truce in India-Pakistan conflict, says ‘we did that through trade'
During his meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday (July 14), Trump said, 'We've been very successful in settling wars. You have India and Pakistan. You have Rwanda and the Congo, that was going on for 30 years. India, by the way, Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. That was going very badly.'
He emphasised that he leveraged trade to stop the conflict from escalating and warned both countries that he would not engage in trade deals if they continued to fight.
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, 'We have been very successful in settling wars. You have India, Pakistan…India and Pakistan would have been a nuclear war within another week, the way that was going. That was going very badly. We did that through trade. I said, we're… pic.twitter.com/GPDA6ObK0B
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'We did that through trade. I said, we're not going to talk to you about trade unless you get this thing settled. And they did, they are both great leaders.'
The US president has repeatedly claimed credit for brokering a ceasefire in the 4-day India-Pakistan conflict, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling Trump that India neither requested the United States' mediation nor discussed any trade deal.
The most recent instance was during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, after he nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump had then told the reporters that his administration's diplomatic efforts helped stop the military conflict between India and Pakistan.
'We stopped a lot of fights, very, very big one was India and Pakistan. We stopped that over trade,' Trump said.
'We are dealing with India and Pakistan. We said that we are not going to be dealing with you at all if you are gonna fight. They were maybe at a nuclear stage… Stopping that was really important,' he added.
Modi reminds Trump no US role in Operation Sindoor pause
After the US president left the G7 Summit in Canada early, cutting short a planned in-person meeting, PM Modi spoke to him via a phone call and told him that at no point was there any discussion, at any level, on an India-US trade deal or any proposal for mediation by the US between India and Pakistan.
Detailing the 35-minute phone conversation between PM Modi and Trump, their first since Operation Sindoor, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, 'President Trump enquired if Prime Minister Modi could stop over in the US on his way back from Canada. Due to prior commitments, Prime Minister Modi expressed his inability to do so. Both leaders agreed to make efforts to meet in the near future.'
Underlining that a discussion on ending military action took place 'directly between India and Pakistan through the existing channels of communication between the two armed forces' and had been initiated 'at Pakistan's request', Modi said, 'India does not and will never accept mediation.' He also said there was 'complete political consensus' in India on this issue.
'Prime Minister Modi clearly conveyed to President Trump that at no point during this entire sequence of events was there any discussion, at any level, on an India-US trade deal, or any proposal for a mediation by the US between India and Pakistan. The discussion to cease military action took place directly between India and Pakistan through the existing channels of communication between the two armed forces, and it was initiated at Pakistan's request. Prime Minister Modi firmly stated that India does not and will never accept mediation. There is complete political consensus in India on this matter,' Misri said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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