Keeping an eye on Pakistan-India truce ‘every single day’: US
Secretary of State Rubio ceasefire deals can fall apart quickly as maintaining them is a challenge
The United States monitors the Pakistan-India situation "every single day", said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reiterating claims by American President Donald Trump of having helped in averting a nuclear escalation between two Asian neighbours, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Monday.
In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, Marco Rubio said truce deals can fall apart quickly as maintaining them is a challenge.
"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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This is a big admission & Munir starting another skirmish is a possibility. pic.twitter.com/d81LPNrjnH
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.
In a separate interview with Fox Business, Rubio again mentioned the recent conflict between India and Pakistan that President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he solved. "And I think we are very fortunate and blessed and should be thankful to have a president who has made peace and the achievement of peace a priority of his administration. We've seen it in Cambodia and Thailand. We've seen it in India-Pakistan. We've seen it in Rwanda and the DRC. And we're going to continue to pursue any opportunities we can find to bring about peace in the world," Rubio said.
Trump's ceasefire claim
Since May 10, when Trump announced on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a "full and immediate" ceasefire after a "long night" of talks mediated by Washington, he has repeated his claim about 40 times that he "helped settle" the tensions between India and Pakistan and that he told the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours that America will do a "lot of trade" with them if they stopped the conflict.