07:56, 8 August 2025

Trump announces meeting with Aliyev and Pashinyan

According to the American president, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan will sign documents on peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia and a number of economic agreements.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on March 13, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced that Yerevan had accepted Baku's proposals on two articles of the peace treaty that remained uncoordinated. The Armenian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Yerevan had accepted the remaining points of the treaty and was ready to sign it. By December 2024, Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed on the preamble, as well as 15 of the 17 articles of the draft peace treaty. The points regarding the parties' refraining from international lawsuits against each other and the refusal to deploy representatives of third countries on the border remained uncoordinated.

Armenia is considering the possibility of transferring control over the Zangezur corridor to an American company, the country's deputy foreign minister said. This statement was made against the backdrop of a meeting between Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan in Abu Dhabi, where, according to sources, the issue of the corridor was also discussed. Reaching agreements on the corridor without involving Russia means a significant weakening of its position in the region and indicates a gradual extrusion from the South Caucasus. At the same time, Moscow cannot offer alternative transport routes, Russian analysts noted. US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said the US had offered to lease the Zangezur Corridor to Armenia and Azerbaijan for 100 years.

US President Donald Trump called his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House historic. "These two countries have been at war for many years, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Many leaders have tried to end this war, but to no avail. My administration has been engaged with both sides for quite some time. Tomorrow, President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan will join me at the White House for a formal peace signing ceremony. The United States will also sign bilateral agreements with both countries to jointly develop economic opportunities so that we can fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus region," he wrote on his Truth social network page.

According to the documents that the leaders sign on Friday, Armenia plans to grant the United States exclusive rights to develop a transit corridor to be called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). The route will be operated under Armenian law, and the United States will sublease the route to an infrastructure and management consortium. "This step will unblock the region and prevent further military action through commercial means," Reuters writes, citing official sources.

The agency also reported that a framework peace agreement is planned to be signed during the meeting, which includes exclusive US rights to develop a strategic transit corridor through the South Caucasus.

Recall that in January 2024, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called the opening of the Zangezur corridor through Armenia to Nakhichevan a condition for opening the border with Armenia. Yerevan has never committed to opening the Zangezur corridor to connect the main part of Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan objected and called Aliyev's speech "a serious blow to the peace process."

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