United States President Donald Trump on Monday claimed credit for brokering the peace talks between India and Pakistan and suggested both the nations to “have a nice dinner together.” While speaking at the US-Saudi Investment forum in the presence of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump asserted that he mainly employed trade pressure to de-escalate the conflict.
“Let us not trade nuclear missiles. Let us trade the things that you make so beautifully. And they both have very powerful leaders, very strong leaders, good leaders, smart leaders. And it all stopped. Hopefully, it will remain that way, but it all stopped,” said Trump.
He praised the Secretary of State Rubio for his hard work in getting both sides to stop attacking each other. “Maybe we can even get them together a little bit, Marco, where they go out and have a nice dinner together. Wouldn't that be nice? But we have come a long way, and that could be, you know, millions of people could have died from that conflict, that started off small and was getting bigger and bigger and bigger by the day,” he added further.
India, however, has rejected any third-party mediations and said that the de-escalation was carried out through direct communication.
The US President had repeatedly claimed to establish a ceasefire between both nations on Saturday and Sunday.
While releasing a statement on his Truth Social platform on May 10, Trump declared that India and Pakistan had reached a ceasefire.
