US President Donald Trump repeated his claim of ending the India-Pakistan conflict with “trade” diplomacy earlier this year and suggested he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “ending seven wars.”
“On the world stage, we are once again doing things that we are just respected at a level that we have never been respected before,” Trump said at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner, highlighting what he described as a renewed global admiration for US leadership under his administration, news agency PTI reported.
“We are forging peace agreements, and we are stopping wars. So we stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia,” PTI quoted the US President as saying.
“Think of India and Pakistan. Think of that. And you know how I stopped that — with trade. They want to trade. And I have great respect for both leaders. But when you take a look at all of these wars that we’ve stopped,” he stated.
Listing a range of global conflicts, he further said, “Just look at that. India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. We stopped all of them. And 60 per cent of them were stopped because of trade.”
Referencing his diplomatic strategy, he elaborated further, “like with India, I said, ‘look, we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to fight and they have nuclear weapons. They stopped.”
Trump also mentioned the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, claiming he was told it could earn him a Nobel Peace Prize if he managed to bring it to an end.
“I said, ‘Well, what about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one’. So they said, ‘but if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel’. I said I stopped seven wars. That’s one war, and that’s a big one,” he said.
He concluded his remarks by expressing his belief that the Russia-Ukraine conflict could still be resolved under his leadership.
“Because I have a good relationship with President Putin, disappointed in him, but I do. I thought that would be the easiest one, but we’ll get it done one way or the other,” he stated.
