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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday again reiterated his claim that he was responsible for ending the conflict between India and Pakistan which took place in May and credited himself for using trade and tariff as a diplomatic tool to end wars and conflicts across the world.
Delivering his remarks at a dinner with business leaders during his visit to Japan on Tuesday, Trump said that he was able to stop conflicts across the globe, including India-Pakistan in May through trade and that he has done a “great service to the world”. “A lot of the wars that I stopped were because of tariffs. And, frankly, I did a great service to the world, but because of tariffs, because of trade,” the US president was quoted as saying.
Trump has repeatedly claimed in the past that his administration was responsible for securing a “full and immediate” truce between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in May, and refers to it as US-mediated talks.
Earlier in October, the US president claimed he was able to solve eight global conflicts across the world through his tariff threats which were the real reason behind peace efforts.
On Tuesday, Trump while talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir said, “If you look at India and Pakistan, they were going at it. Seven planes were shot down. Seven brand-new, beautiful planes were shot down, and they were going at it, two big nuclear powers. And I said to Prime Minister Modi – the prime minister very nice man, a very good man, and the field marshal over in Pakistan, I said that ‘we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to be fighting’.”
However, India has rejected Trump’s claims of ending the conflict with Pakistan, stating that the decision to de-escalate tensions with Islamabad was taken through a direct diplomatic effort between the two countries, and that there was no third-party involvement for any kind of mediation.
