When Trump crows over the termination of a conflict, the Indian leaders feel cheated

Russia is still waging his grinding war against Ukraine. Israel only deepens his fight in Gaza. But last week, President Trump had had to play a ceasefire against peace stitches for decades between India and Pakistan, two nuclear armed powers.

Since then he has hardly stopped talking about it. And his free -running descriptions of the US mediation are repeated some of the politically sensitive places in India and burdened relationships with a growing partner who had overcome decades of hesitation in order to achieve a place of trust with the United States.

On Tuesday, India directly contradicted the claim that Mr. Trump had made in Saudi Arabia on this day and the day before in Washington both in Saudi Arabia and the diplomatic efforts of the American diplomatic efforts.

The President said he had offered to increase the trade with India and Pakistan if they hire hostility and threatens to stop it if they didn't. After these temptations and warnings, he said: “Suddenly they said we will stop the fights.

None of this was true, said an official in the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a press conference on Tuesday.

“There were talks between Indian and US leaders about the developing military situation,” said Randhir Jaiswal, spokesman for the ministry. “None of these discussions occurred in the question of trade.”