US announces peace deal between Azerbaijan, Armenia
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a US peace agreement with US President Donald Trump during a meeting that would increase bilateral economic ties after decades of conflicts and advance their relations.
The agreement between the southern Caucasus competitors on Friday – assuming that it has – will be an important success for the Trump administration, which sees the region in the domain.
“For a long time – 35 years – they’ve fought and now they’ll be friends and they’ll be friends for a long time,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. He said.
Since the end of the 1980s, Armenia and Azerbaijan contradict Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous Azerbaijan region filled mostly by ethnic Armenians, with the support of Armenia. In 2023, Azerbaijan took back the full control of the region and encouraged almost all of the region’s 100,000 ethnic Armenians to escape to Armenia.
Trump said that the two countries committed to stop fighting, to open diplomatic relations and to respect each other’s regional integrity.
The agreement includes US development rights for a strategic transition corridor, which the White House says that it will facilitate more energy and other resource exports through the South Caucasus.
Trump said that the US has signed separate agreements with each country to expand energy, trade and technology cooperation, including artificial intelligence. Details were not published.
The authority said that Moscow has also been abolished on defense cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States, which is also a concern, Azerbaijan and the United States.
Both leaders praised Trump for helping to end the conflict and said they would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the first months of his second period, Trump tried to present himself as a global peaceful. The White House is about the sealing of peace agreements between the ceasefire and Rwanda and the Congo Democratic Republic and Pakistan and India between Cambodia and Thailand.
However, he failed to end Russia’s war in Ukraine or Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza. On Friday, Trump said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15th to end the war.
US officials said that the agreement was beaten during the visits to the region again and that it would provide a basis to work for a complete normalization between countries.
The Peace Agreement can transform the South Caucasus, a region that is crossed by Russia, Europe, Turkey and Iran’s oil and gas pipelines, but carried out by closed borders and long -standing ethnic conflicts.
Senior administration officials said the agreement has pointed out the first of the first of a few frozen conflicts around Russia since the end of the Cold War and sent a strong signal to the whole region.
US officials told Reuters, in Armenia’s transit corridor for a long time plans to give US exclusive development rights. An official has already attracted attention from nine companies, including the so -called Trump route for international peace and prosperity.
Daphne Panayotatos said that with the freedom of Washington -based Rights Group, he called on the meeting with Aliyev to request the release of 375 political prisoners in the country.
Azerbaijan, a country that hosts the United Nations Climate Summit last November, rejected the West’s criticism of human rights records and described it as unacceptable intervention.
