New York : At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), US President Donald Trump repeated his claim of ending seven wars. He said, “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars.”
The “wars” that he said he ended were, Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Serbia and Kosovo.
Addressing the 80th UNGA session, Trump said, “They said they were unendable, some were going for 31 years, one was 36 years. I ended 7 wars and in all cases they were raging with countless thousands of people being killed” adding that no other president or leader has “ever done anything close to that”.
He then criticised the United Nations and said that it “did not even try to help” solve the wars. “It’s not even coming close to living up to its potential… it’s empty words, and empty words don’t solve wars” Trump said.
Since May 10, after Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire after the US mediated the talks, the US President has continued to repeat the claim at addresses.
India has denied the claims, maintaining that the ceasefire was achieved through talks between the Indian and Pakistani militaries and not US mediation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also clarified in Parliament that no leader of any country asked India to stop Operation Sindoor launched by India in retaliation after the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 people.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had supported India’s position and told Al Jazeera that “India never agreed to any third-party mediation” on bilateral issues. He explained, “We don’t mind third-party involvement, but India has categorically been stating it’s a bilateral matter.”
