Trump to host Azerbaijan, Armenia leaders to sign US-brokered deal

US president says helium volition oversee the deal, which includes plans for a caller transit corridor called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that helium volition big the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia for a “historic bid summit”.

Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, and Nikol Pashinyan, the premier curate of Armenia, volition conscionable with Trump astatine the White House connected Friday for an authoritative “peace signing ceremony,” the president wrote connected his Truth Social platform.

“These 2 Nations person been astatine War for galore years, resulting successful the deaths of thousands of people. Many Leaders person tried to extremity the War, with nary success, until now, acknowledgment to ‘TRUMP,’” helium wrote.

News of the talks successful Washington was reported earlier this week erstwhile Pashinyan’s authorities announced the gathering successful a connection connected Telegram.

The 2 countries, erstwhile Soviet republics, person faced disconnected implicit the portion of Nagorno-Karabakh since the precocious 1980s, erstwhile Nagorno-Karabakh broke distant from Azerbaijan with enactment from Armenia.

The region, which was claimed by some Azerbaijan and Armenia aft the autumn of the Russian Empire successful 1917, had a mostly taste Armenian colonisation astatine the time.

The 2 sides fought a bloody warfare that lasted into the aboriginal 1990s, and the portion has remained a large flashpoint ever since.

The struggle resumed successful 2020 erstwhile Azerbaijan tried to retake Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia.

Azerbaijan recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh successful September 2023, prompting astir each of the territory’s 100,000 Armenians to fly to Armenia.

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met successful Abu Dhabi, successful the United Arab Emirates, for bid talks past month, but nary breakthrough successful the decades-old struggle was announced.

The Trump medication intensified its efforts to question a solution successful March erstwhile the president dispatched his peculiar envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the region.

The prospective statement could perchance enactment an extremity to decades of struggle and acceptable the signifier for a reopening of cardinal proscription corridors crossed the South Caucasus that person been unopen since the aboriginal 1990s.

US officials told The Associated Press quality bureau that the agreements included a large breakthrough establishing a cardinal transit corridor crossed the region, which had been an obstacle successful bid talks.

The agreement, according to the officials, would springiness the US leasing rights to make the corridor and sanction it the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

It would nexus Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan region, which is separated from the remainder of the state by a 32-kilometre (20-mile) spot of Armenia’s territory.

The transit corridor is expected to yet see a obstruction line, lipid and state lines, and fibre optic lines, allowing for the question of goods and yet people.

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