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On the day of his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, United States President Donald Trump repeated multiple times his claim that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan, while also commenting on New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.
New Delhi has been maintaining that India and Pakistan halted their military actions following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.
“I’ve negotiated five wars to their end, and the wars that were tough. India, Pakistan…” Trump said in an interview with Fox News a couple of hours after his high-stakes summit meeting with Putin ended in Anchorage, Alaska, reported PTI .
The meeting between the two leaders concluded without any agreement on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
In the same interview, Trump again spoke about resolving the conflict between India and Pakistan, as well as others, including between Congo and Rwanda, Thailand and Cambodia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Look at India. Take a look at India and Pakistan. They were shooting down airplanes already, and that would have been maybe nuclear. I would have said it was going to go nuclear, and I was able to get it done,” Trump claimed.
Stressing that wars are “very bad”, Trump said that he seems to have “an ability to end them, to get people together” for which he uses the “power of the United States”.
When asked about how he settles conflicts like the one between India and Pakistan, Trump said he does so through trade.
“Because I deal with all of the countries for trade, and while I have them on the phone, if I’m dealing with them…they say, you know, there’s a war going on, and if we’re doing trade with one or both of them, I say ‘we’re not going to do a deal unless you make peace’.”
In a separate interview with Fox News aboard Air Force One on his way to Alaska for the summit meeting, Trump spoke about the tariffs on India.
