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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, held a joint press conference in the Eastern Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025.
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The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, used his first conversation with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, from the beginning of May in conflict between India and Pakistan to express his frustration with the repeated statements of Trump that he played an important role in the rhythm of a high fire between the two countries with nuclear weapons.
“Prime Minister Modi firmly declared that India does not accept and will never accept mediation. There is a complete political consensus in India on this matter,” said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in a statement.
During a Tuesday phone call between the two leaders, Modi “clearly transmitted” to Trump that the United States did not play any role in the mediation between India and Pakistan and denied any discussion about a commercial agreement, Misri said.
The 35 -minute call was initiated by Trump, he added.
The White House did not provide a separate reading of the call.
The two leaders spoke for the last time in early May, after an April terrorist attack by Islamist militants in the Cashmiro region controlled by India killed 26 civilians.
India responded with a Tit bombing per eye in Pakistan, which resulted in a four -day conflict That threatened to explode in a wider war fed by decades of tensions between the two countries.
Trump has repeatedly affirmed that the United States played an important role in the eventual de -escalation of tensions between Islamabad and Nueva Delhi.
“He stopped the war between Pakistan and India,” Trump said outside the White House on Wednesday, where he called Modi “a fantastic man.”
Trump has also recently compared the current conflict between Israel and Iran with the Indian-Pakistan conflict last month. Triumph On Sunday said that Israel and Iran should make a deal “just as I got India and Pakistan to do.”
The strident tone of India’s statement on Wednesday was probably partly due to Trump’s decision to receive the Pakistan army chief for lunch at the White House.
Trump told White House journalists that lunch intended to “thank him for not entering the war” and discussing a possible commercial agreement with the country.
The president also promoted apparent progress in a commercial agreement with India.
Trump and Modi had been scheduled to meet in the G7 summit in Canada this week. But Trump left a day before, with the White House saying he interrupted the trip due to tensions in the Middle East.