Washington: US State Secretary Marco Rubio has said that President Donald Trump deserves "tremendous credit" for having brokered several peace deals, including the "very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan", a claim against which New Delhi has maintained that there was no "third-party" mediation in reaching the ceasefire understanding during the conflict in May.
Rubio, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, said that for the first time in decades, American foreign policy was guided entirely by whether it made the US "safer, stronger and more prosperous".
"If it is, he's (Trump) for it. If it doesn't, he's against it. And that sort of clarity is transformation," he added. Rubio further stated, "Not to mention all the other peace deals, very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan or Cambodia and Thailand, and so on...Mr President, I think you deserve tremendous credit for the transformational aspect of our foreign policy.”
Earlier at the meeting, the US President repeated his claim that he had resolved several global conflicts, including between India and Pakistan, asserting, again, that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for each of the "eight wars" he has stopped.
“We ended eight wars... But we're going to do one more, I think, I hope,” Trump said, referring to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as discussions on a peace deal are underway in the region.
Trump also credits himself with having 'resolved' conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and Congo, within the first eight months of his second term in the Oval Office. The US President also claims credit for resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict.
India made it clear that the ceasefire understanding reached in the four-day conflict with Pakistan in May was after Islamabad's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) reached out to his Indian counterpart.
