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Speaking at a White House press briefing, Trump repeated his claim that he had helped defuse last month’s military tensions between India and Pakistan
US President Donald Trump. (AFP file photo)
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he convinced India and Pakistan to stand down from a possible nuclear confrontation by threatening to halt all trade with both countries.
Speaking at a White House press briefing, Trump repeated his claim that he had helped defuse last month’s military tensions between India and Pakistan.
“We did some great work, India and Pakistan, that was going to be maybe nuclear, we did that, we did a lot of work. I don’t know if there’s ever been a president that’s done much more,” the US President said.
Trump recalled issuing a firm warning to both countries, saying that if they continued with the conflict — potentially even a nuclear one — the US would halt all trade with them. He said he had instructed senior officials to cancel all deals with India and Pakistan unless they agreed to de-escalate
“What do we do? I said, look, you want to have trade with the United States. It’s great, but you want to go and start using nuclear weapons on each other. We’re not going to allow that. And they both agreed,” he stated.
Trump also drew a parallel with the Serbia–Kosovo situation, where he claimed a similar warning was effective.
The US President has repeated the claim several times that he “helped settle” the tensions between India and Pakistan.
However, India has been consistently maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two militaries.
In a nearly 35-minute phone call with Trump last week, PM Narendra Modi firmly stated that India does not and will “never accept” mediation and that the discussions between Indian and Pakistani militaries on cessation of military actions were initiated at Islamabad’s request.
(With inputs from PTI)
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