The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia signed an historical agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict as they were hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.
The Armenia-Azerbaijan border conflict is an ongoing post-Soviet conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani military forces. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, in the 1980s and 1990s and violence has flared up in the years since.
In recent years a major crisis began on May 12, 2021, when Azerbaijani soldiers crossed several kilometers into Armenia in the Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described the event as "historic" for both countries.
On Friday, Trump said Armenia and Azerbaijan had promised to stop all fighting "forever" as well as open up travel, business and diplomatic relations. (BBC)
The White House said that, as part of the deal, the US will also help build a major transit corridor that will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.
The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by Armenian territory. In the past, Aliyev has demanded that Armenia give his country a railroad corridor to Nakhichevan.
Armenia wanted to have control of the road and the Azerbaijani leader has in the past threatened to take the corridor by force. The issue has halted and stalled previous peace negotiations.
Both leaders praised Trump and his team throughout the meeting:
Trump said he had also signed a bilateral agreement with both countries to expand energy and technology trade.
In reaction to the Peace agreement Iran rejects planned border corridor backed by US President Donald Trump. Iran is saying it will distance itself from ally Russia in the context of this issue.
According to the White House communiqu, President Trump is the President of Peace. He has brokered peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kosovo, and with the Abraham Accords.
We will see next week if President Trump is a the president of peace and if he is able to find an agreement between Russia and Ukraine. President Putin will meet with President Trump next friday in Alaska.
Regarding the situation in the Middle East, President Trump was not able to find a peace agreement to put an end to the Hamas hostage-taking and Israel's genocidal aggression on the population in Gaza.
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Source: The White House and BBC
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