U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Cabinet meeting at the White House on 8 July that the United States "prevented and ended a war between India and Pakistan" under President Donald Trump’s leadership. The remark echoes Trump’s own assertion a day earlier that he warned the South Asian rivals the United States would halt trade with them if hostilities continued, a move he said defused a potentially nuclear confrontation. Rubio said the administration is now focused on securing a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, adding that he hopes a deal will be reached "pretty soon." He provided no timetable or details but framed the effort as part of a broader push to stabilise longstanding flashpoints. In the same briefing, Rubio credited U.S. diplomacy with ending a 12-day conflict between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and cited increases in NATO defence spending as further evidence of Washington’s foreign-policy accomplishments. Officials from India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia have not publicly responded to Rubio’s latest statements.