“The need to reduce tensions and moderate rhetoric with India regarding the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was discussed. The President reiterated the need to avoid escalating the situation and called on both sides to restraint, ”the report said.
Earlier, Trump proposed to become a mediator in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.
In turn, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, Raveesh Kumar, said that the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not ask the US President to act as a mediator.