EAM Jaishankar junks Trump’s India-Pakistan ceasefire claims
Dismissing US President Donald Trump’s claims to have brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that there was no phone call between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi between April 22 and June 17.
“No phone call took place between PM Modi and US President Trump between April 22 and June 17,” Jaishankar said.
“After we retaliated to Pakistan’s attack, we got phone calls saying Pakistan was ready to stop. But, we told them the request has to come from Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO),” he told the Parliament during a debate on Operation Sindoor.
“Thanks to India’s diplomacy, TRF (The Resistance Front)– which owned up Pahalgam attack – was designated as a global terrorist organisation.”
“Multilateral groups such as Quad and BRICS condemned April 22 Pahalgam attack, so did many individual countries.”
“German foreign minister said India has every right to defend itself against terror and will support us; so has France and the European Union.”