President Trump repeated his claim that he had ended seven “unendable wars” wars during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying, “It’s too bad I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them.”
Mr. Trump, who has a history of boasting about his role as a resolver of world conflicts as he campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, also disparaged the work of the United Nations, a body that he said “did not even try to help in any of them.”
“What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he asked. All the institution does, he added, is “write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.”
In some of the instances that Mr. Trump claims to have brokered peace, the warring parties have credited him with calming hostilities or advancing talks toward a peace agreement. But his role is disputed or less clear in others. And in two major conflicts, the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, Mr. Trump’s efforts so far have failed.
Here’s a deeper look at Mr. Trump’s peace claims.
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Mr. Trump brought the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the White House in August to sign a joint declaration aimed at bringing their long-running conflict closer to an end.
Though it was not a peace deal, it was the first commitment toward reaching an agreement since violence broke out in the 1980s.
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