‘Every single day’ we keep an eye on what's happening between Pakistan and India: Marco Rubio

Rubio again mentioned the recent conflict between India and Pakistan that President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he solved.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday said the US keeps "an eye" on what is happening between India and Pakistan "every single day".

"Ceasefires can fall apart very quickly," Rubio said adding that one of the complications about ceasefires is they have to be maintained, which is very difficult.

"…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. I mean, every single day we keep an eye on what's happening between Pakistan and India, what's happening between Cambodia and Thailand," Rubio said.

This comes amidst President Trump's repeated claims that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan, while also commenting on New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, in the summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently.

New Delhi has been maintaining that India and Pakistan halted their military actions following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.

“I've negotiated five wars to their end, and the wars that were tough. India, Pakistan..." Trump said in an interview with Fox News a couple of hours after his high-stakes summit meeting with Putin ended in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.

In a separate interview Rubio too mentioned 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.

(With PTI inputs)