Kosovo and Serbia were at war” - CNN verifys and calls Trump statements false at UN

Trump was incorrect of a wide range of topics. They included US inflation, climate policies both in the US and abroad, immigration, its role in resolving international conflicts and its position in polls. The newspaper has made a fact check on some of his statements.

Trump and War: The president claimed: “I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were escalating, with tens of thousands of people killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Congo and Rwanda a fierce, violent war that was Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan”.

But Egypt and Ethiopia were not really at war during Trump's time at the White House. They have a long and unresolved dispute over a large Ethiopian dam project on a Nile River branch, but this is not war, so Trump couldn't have finished one here. Similarly, although Trump has earlier claimed to have prevented the outbreak of a new war between Serbia and Kosovo by providing little detail about what those countries were talking about either during his current mandate or during the first term, when they signed an agreement on economic normalisation brokered by the Trump administration in 2020, CNN writes.

Furthermore, Trump has not actually completed the conflict involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The Peace Agreement brokered by the Trump administration and signed by the RDC and Rwanda in June did not include the rebel coalition, which is reportedly backed by Rwanda, which has taken control of territories east of the RDC. And CNN reported from the ground this week: “Ten militant groups that have fought for three decades in one of the longest and most complex conflicts in the world are still involved in deadly combat, and the alleged peace agreement for the country by American President Donald Trump looks like a distant dream”.

Trump's importance and success in addressing the other four conflicts he mentioned can be debated. Especially, while Pakistan has praised Trump for its crucial role in mediating the May truce with India, India has dismissed the claim that he had played a role in this, saying it solved the conflict directly with Pakistan.

“Trump halted 7 wars, among them Kosovo-Serbia”, the US Embassy in Pristina distributes UN post