Trump claims India-Pakistan truce, Armenia, Azerbaijan nominates him for Nobel Prize

By Anjali Sharma

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his claim of brokering peace between India and Pakistan while overseeing a peace accord between Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose leaders said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was presiding over the signing of a peace accord between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House.

Trump pointed his role in mediating disputes in other parts of the world, including Thailand and Cambodia.

Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan announced their intention to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, called the agreement a historic breakthrough.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said both nations would submit a letter recommending Trump for the honor, remarking, “Who, if not President Trump, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Trump compared the Armenia-Azerbaijan pact to what he described as his earlier success in preventing a “tremendous” and potentially nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.

He said the two South Asian nations “were going at it big” before their leaders reached an understanding.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had credited Trump with directly intervening to ease the India-Pakistan standoff, added it to the list of conflicts where the administration claims to have brokered peace.

Trump also cited efforts in Africa and Southeast Asia, including between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and between Thailand and Cambodia.

The Armenia-Azerbaijan accord aims to settle the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, is the latest in a string of US-brokered deals.

The mountainous region broke away from Azerbaijan in the late 1980s with Armenian backing, sparked years of conflict.

Trump hailed the agreement as “historic,” saying it would enhance regional stability and open opportunities for trade and investment.

He has been making similar claims about mediating peace between India and Pakistan since May 10, when tensions between the two countries began to subside assertions that New Delhi has consistently denied.