External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha on Monday that there was no call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump between April 22 and June 17.
Speaking during the debate on Operation Sindoor in the ongoing Monsoon Session in the Lok Sabha, Jaishankar said: “There was no call between the Prime Minister [Modi] and President Trump from the 22nd of April when President Trump called up to convey his sympathy and the 17th of June, when he called up Prime Minister [Modi] in Canada to explain why he could not meet.”
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Jaishankar’s clarification before the Lower House came as the opposition questioned the Centre on the operation carried out by the Indian military in retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives. The opposition had been demanding a statement from the government over Trump’s claim of intervening in the India-Pakistan conflict and using trade deals to bring both the countries to agree to truce.
On the claims that the US President used trade offers for a ceasefire, Jaishankar said: “I want to make two things very clear. At no stage in any conversation with the United States was there any linkage with trade and what was going on.”
The External Affairs Minister also said that US Vice President JD Vance had called up Prime Minister Modi on May 9 to warn of a “massive Pakistani attack,” to which PM Modi replied that “if such an attack happens it will meet with an appropriate response from our side”.
Jaishankar further said that India had received calls from several countries on May 10, claiming that Pakistan was ready to end the conflict. However, India made it clear that “if Pakistan was ready, we needed to get this as a request from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel”.
