US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has doubled down on President Donald Trump’s claim that the Trump administration got “involved directly” in brokering peace between India and Pakistan following the military conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours after India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’, the response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
“On the broader issue of peace, the President is committed to peace and committed to 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,” said Rubio during an interview with EWTN’s The World Over on Thursday (August 7).
Rubio listed the conflicts which he claimed Trump has resolved. “Cambodia and Thailand more recently; Azerbaijan and Armenia, hopefully – we’re taping this here today, but on Friday of this week, we’ll be here to sign an agreement and the beginning of a peace deal there. DRC-Rwanda – a 30-year war, 7 million people killed – we were able to bring them here to sign it. Obviously, work needs to – peace is not permanent. It always has to be worked and maintained,” he said.
Rubio also said that the Trump administration was looking to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
“But we’re very proud of those initiatives, and we’re looking for more – obviously, the big one being in Ukraine and Russia. We want to see that as well. But we dedicate a significant amount of time to stopping and ending wars,” he added.