ET BureauUS President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation that he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. The Russian leader is understood to have given a patient hearing to Trump amid Moscow's stated position that any dispute between India and Pakistan is strictly bilateral in nature.
The recent conflict between India and Pakistan was among the issues which figured during a phone call between them, according to a Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov.
During their conversation on Wednesday, the two leaders discussed Ukraine and also touched on some other issues, Ushakov told a media briefing.
"They also touched upon the Middle East and the armed conflict between India and Pakistan, which was stopped with the personal participation of President Trump," Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russia's state-run TASS news agency.
Ushakov, however, didn't share the details. Persons familiar with the US-Russia dynamics told ET that Putin has been in talks with Trump to stabilise US-Russia and US-Iran ties and gave a patient hearing to the American leader. Moscow has been maintaining that there is no scope for internationalising the Indo-Pak conflict and backed India's anti-terror actions.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. However, India has been maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged Putin to assist in resolving the conflict with India, Pakistan PM's special aide Syed Tariq Fatemi said. Fatemi, who met foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, handed over a letter from Sharif for Putin.
His visit came days after a highly successful tour of a multi-party parliamentary delegation led by DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, who spread awareness about Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism and got solid Russian backing for India's zero-tolerance policy against terrorism.
The recent conflict between India and Pakistan was among the issues which figured during a phone call between them, according to a Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov.
During their conversation on Wednesday, the two leaders discussed Ukraine and also touched on some other issues, Ushakov told a media briefing.
"They also touched upon the Middle East and the armed conflict between India and Pakistan, which was stopped with the personal participation of President Trump," Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russia's state-run TASS news agency.
Ushakov, however, didn't share the details. Persons familiar with the US-Russia dynamics told ET that Putin has been in talks with Trump to stabilise US-Russia and US-Iran ties and gave a patient hearing to the American leader. Moscow has been maintaining that there is no scope for internationalising the Indo-Pak conflict and backed India's anti-terror actions.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. However, India has been maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged Putin to assist in resolving the conflict with India, Pakistan PM's special aide Syed Tariq Fatemi said. Fatemi, who met foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, handed over a letter from Sharif for Putin.
His visit came days after a highly successful tour of a multi-party parliamentary delegation led by DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, who spread awareness about Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism and got solid Russian backing for India's zero-tolerance policy against terrorism.
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