Rubio’s statement comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently told the Parliament that no world leader forced India to stop the hostilities during Operations Sindoor against Pakistan. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire.
Operation Sindoor: US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for brokering the India-Pakistan ceasefire that ended the 100-hour war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in May this year. Trump has repeated the claim over two dozen times since May 10, and now, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reiterated the same, claiming that the United States “got involved directly” when India and Pakistan “went to war”, and the US President was able to establish peace between the two bitter rivals.
What did Rubio say?
In an interview to EWTN’s ‘The World Over’ on Thursday, Marco Rubio said that Trump is committed to peace and being the “president of peace”. And so, we saw when India and Pakistan went to war, we got involved directly, and the president was able to deliver on that peace.”
Rubio claimed that apart from ending the recent India-Pakistan war, Donald Trump also played a key role in resolving conflicts in other parts of the world, such as between Cambodia and Thailand, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Cambodia and Thailand more recently; Azerbaijan and Armenia, hopefully…DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)-Rwanda – a 30-year war, 7 million people killed – we were able to bring them here to sign it,” Rubio said, adding that the US was proud of those initiatives and “we’re looking for more – obviously, the big one being in Ukraine and Russia”.
“We dedicate a significant amount of time to stopping and ending wars,” he said.
How India responded?
Rubio’s statement comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently told the Parliament that no world leader forced India to stop the hostilities during Operations Sindoor against Pakistan.
India has consistently maintained that understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two militaries.
Recently, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who recently led an all-party delegation to the US, said he raised Trump’s mediation claims directly with US Vice President JD Vance during his talks. “The meeting with Vice President Vance was very good and very clear. I think we made our position clear on this question of mediation and Vice President Vance understood our point of view completely,” Tharoor said.
Donald Trump, since May 10, has repeatedly claimed credit for mediating India-Pakistan ceasefire, asserting he used trade as a weapon to force New Delhi and Islamabad to “immediately stop the fighting”.
(With inputs from agencies)
