Washington – Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan joined hands as they attended President Trump for a peace summit at the White House on Friday, where they signed an agreement With the aim of ending decades of conflict,
The two countries in the South Caucasus signed agreements with one other and the US, which will reopen the major transport routes, allowing the US to seize Russia’s declining influence in the region. The deal includes an agreement that would build a major transit corridor to be named Trump Route for international peace and prosperity, the White House said.
Mr. Trump said at the White House on Friday that the Naming of the route was “a great honor for me” after him, but “I did not ask for it.”
On a call before the incident with reporters, a senior administration official said that the Armenians had suggested the name.
At the peace summit on Friday, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliiv said the transit corridor “will create connectivity opportunities for so many countries.”
“We are starting the way towards strategic partnership,” he said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinian called the agreement a “important milestone”.
Pashinian said, “We are laying a foundation to write a better story than us in the past.”
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The two leaders said that the success became possible by Mr. Trump and his team and joined the growing list of foreign leaders and other officials, who said that the American leader should receive the Nobel Peace Prize – which he has distinguished.
“President Trump performed a miracle in six months,” said Aliyev.
Mr. Trump commented on how long the conflict between the two countries had lived and said about the agreement, “Thirty five years they fought and now they are friends and they are going to be friends for a long time.”
The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous nakhivan exclusive, separated by a 20 -mile wide patches of the Armenian region. Azerbaijan’s demand had held peace talks in the past.
Mr. Trump indicated that he wants to visit the route at some point, saying, “We are going to reach there.”
White House spokesman Anna Kelly said on Friday, “Roadmaps agree to build a cooperative future, which will benefit both countries, their territory of the South Caucasus and beyond.” He said that the new transit corridor would allow the sovereignty of Armenia and the regional integrity and its people, “would” allow unrelated connectivity between the two countries. ”
Asked how he feels about permanent peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Mr. Trump said that he welcomed the two leaders on Friday afternoon as “very confident”.
Friday’s signature added this year’s peace and economic agreements this year’s peace and economic agreements, while Mr. Trump has made no secret of his desire to honor the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in helping to reduce long -running struggles.
Peace deal between Democratic Republic of Congo & Rwanda Helped ending decades of struggle in Eastern Congo, and a ceasefire mediation between America India and PakistanWhile Trump intervened in clashes Cambodia and Thailand Their fighting continued by threatening to withdraw trade agreements with the two countries. Nevertheless, peace deals in Gaza and Ukraine have been elusive.
Signing a deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet Republics, also attacked a geopolitical blow to their former royal master, Russia. During the struggle of nearly four decades, Moscow played the intermediary to expand its clots in the strategic South Caucasus region, but its impact quickly decreased after Ukraine started a full -scale invasion in February 2022. The Trump-Broker deal would allow the US to deepen its reach in the region, as the officials of the Senior US Administration said.
The Trump administration began to get entangled with Armenia and Azerbaijan in Bayana earlier this year, when Mr. Trump’s leading diplomatic messenger, Steve Vitkof, met with Aliyev in Baku and started discussing that a senior administration official said “regional reset”.
Negotiations on the developer who develops the Trump route – will eventually include a railway line, oil and gas lines, and fiber optic lines – possibly starting next week, and at least nine developers have already expressed interest, according to the senior administration official, who informed reporters on the condition of anonymity.
Apart from the joint agreement, both Armenia and Azerbaijan signed deals with the United States, which meant the White House, for energy, technology and cooperation in the economy, said the White House.
Mr. Trump preceded Friday’s plan in a social media post on Thursday evening, in which he said the agreement would “unlock the capacity of the South Caucasus region”.
The President said at his true social site, “Many leaders have tried to end the war, no success, so far, thanks to Trump,” The President said at his truth social site.
Mr. Trump, Pashinian and Aliyev gathered in the dining room of the state for signature ceremony. According to the administration, the peace declaration since the end of the Cold War was signed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan.
One of the documents signed was that one of the letters asked the organization to dissolve their Minsk group for security and cooperation in Europe, established in the 1990s and co-headed by Russia, France and America to intercepted the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. The White House said on Friday that the group is no longer relevant.
The two countries were closed in conflict for about four decades as they fought for the control of the Karbakh region, which was internationally known as Nagorno-Karabakh.
The region was largely inhabited by Armenians during the Soviet era, but is located within Azerbaijan. The two countries fought for the control of the region through several violent clashes, which have killed thousands of people for decades, while all international arbitration efforts had failed.
Recently, Azerbaijan rectified everyone of Karbakh in 2023 and was interacting with Armenia to normalize the relationship. The insistence on a land bridge for Azerbaijan’s nails was a major sticky point, because while Azerbaijan did not trust Armenia to control the so -called Zangzur corridor, Armenia opposed control by a third party as it saw it as a violation of sovereignty.
According to US officials, the possibility of close relations with the United States, as well as being able to reach Georgia or Iran and more independently able to go inside and out of the landlocal nation, helped to woo Armenia on a comprehensive agreement, according to American officials, according to American officials.
Meanwhile, Russia stood back when Azerbaijan retrieved Karbakh’s control in September 2023, annoying Armenia, which has gone to shed the Russian effect and turn to the west. Azerbaijan, influenced by his victory in Karbakh, is also growing rapidly in his relations with Moscow.
