US President Donald Trump, who has openly expressed his desire to win a Nobel Peace Prize, has repeatedly used media appearances to assert his claim that he prevented war between India and Pakistan, allegedly by leveraging trade negotiations as a deterrent.
Speaking at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Trump once again insisted that he had resolved the conflict through a series of phone calls focused on trade.
"In the last few weeks, we took care of India and Pakistan, Kosovo, and Serbia. The Congo is coming in, and Rwanda is coming in; that was a vicious war that went on. We did two others in addition to that. Nobody's ever done anything like this," he said.
"The most important of all, India and Pakistan... I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade. I said, 'If you're going to fight each other, we're not doing any trade deal.' The General from Pakistan was in my office last week. Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine. He's a great gentleman, a great man. I got them to reason, and I said, 'We're not doing a trade deal if you're going to fight.' They said, 'No, I want to do the trade deal.' We stopped the nuclear war," Trump added.
India has consistently rejected Trump's claims about trade talks influencing the de-escalation. The Indian government maintains that the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan independently agreed to an immediate ceasefire, denying any third-party involvement in the decision.
