President Donald Trump claimed credit Tuesday for helping avert a full-scale war between India and Pakistan during his address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Trump said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif personally credited him with saving 30 million lives by stopping the conflict. "The Prime Minister of Pakistan, a terrific man, said that Donald Trump was responsible for saving 30 million lives, and probably many more than that," Trump stated.

The remarks referenced events from May 2025, when India conducted Operation Sindoor in response to a terror attack in Pahalgam. Trump has repeatedly asserted that his administration's diplomatic efforts, including threats of tariffs, helped broker a ceasefire between the nuclear-armed nations.

He placed the India-Pakistan settlement among eight conflicts his administration resolved since returning to office. The list included Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the Gaza conflict.

"Since I took office, it has been my great honour to settle eight wars, and in so doing, become friendly with the leaders of many of those countries," Trump said. He attributed the outcomes to personal relationships, trade leverage, and the threat of tariffs.

India has consistently rejected claims of U.S. mediation. Officials in New Delhi maintain that the halt in hostilities resulted from direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two countries.

Trump noted that leaders from the involved nations sent letters of thanks for his role. The speech highlighted his foreign policy record as a key achievement of his second term.