US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States is closely monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan on a daily basis. He also repeated President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington played a role in preventing a possible nuclear conflict between the two neighbouring countries.
“Every single day we keep an eye on what’s happening between Pakistan and India, what’s happening between Cambodia and Thailand,” Rubio said during NBC News’s Meet the Press show. India has said that the military conflict with Pakistan ended in May after Islamabad sought a ceasefire following heavy losses. Pakistan, however, backed Donald Trump’s claim and credited the US President for intervening and paying attention to the issue.
“One of the complications of ceasefires is maintaining them, which is very difficult. Every single day, we are keeping an eye on what is happening between Pakistan and India,” Rubio said.
‘Ceasefire has to be maintained, which is very difficult. The U.S keeps an eye on what is happening between India and Pakistan every single day,’ says Marco Rubio on NBC.
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Russia-Ukraine Truce Deal
Speaking in the context of the Russia-Ukraine truce deal, he said, “the only way to have a ceasefire is for both sides to agree to stop firing at one another. And the Russians just haven’t agreed to that.”
“Ceasefires can fall apart very quickly, especially after a three-and-a-half-year war (in Ukraine) like what we’re facing now, but I don’t think anyone disagrees that the ideal here, what we’re aiming for is not some permanent ceasefire. What we’re aiming for here is a peace deal so there’s not a war now and there’s not a war in the future,” Rubio added.
Trump Ceasefire Claim
Since May 10, when Donald Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire after overnight talks mediated by Washington, he has repeated nearly 40 times that he “helped settle” the tensions and even claimed he offered both nations more trade if they stopped the conflict. India, however, has strongly refuted these assertions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Parliament that no foreign leader had asked India to halt Operation Sindoor, while External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar categorically stated that there was no third-party intervention in the ceasefire with Pakistan and that the decision was not linked to trade, as claimed by Trump.
