President Donald Trump scored another major foreign policy win Friday, brokering a historic peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan — a breakthrough that eluded the Biden administration, the European Union, and even Russia.
Trump hosted Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House, first meeting privately in the Oval Office before appearing together for the signing of the deal.
“The countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel, and diplomatic relations, and respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Trump announced.
.@POTUS: “It’s a long time… 35 years they fought — and now, they’re friends… It’s a big beautiful honor to welcome everyone to the White House for this very historic peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan.” pic.twitter.com/a2vgx1pzGD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 8, 2025
The agreement formally ends decades of hostility between majority-Christian Armenia and majority-Muslim Azerbaijan, whose conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has raged since the early 1990s. Under the deal, Armenia will grant the United States rights to develop a strategic trade corridor through the South Caucasus — to be named after President Trump — linking Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
The U.S. will also enter into separate bilateral agreements with both nations to deepen cooperation in energy, trade, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence. Trump further lifted long-standing U.S. restrictions on aid and defense cooperation with Azerbaijan, in place since 1992.
Aliyev praised the agreement as “a new history” in his country’s relations with the United States, calling the partnership with America “a great opportunity and a very big responsibility.” He credited Trump with bringing peace to the region.
Pashinyan called the deal “a new era” for both countries and hailed Trump’s “global leadership” in achieving what no other world leader had been able to do.
The deal comes amid a series of rapid-fire diplomatic breakthroughs under Trump’s leadership in recent weeks — including peace agreements between Pakistan and India, Cambodia and Thailand, and a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Trump has also signaled optimism about sealing a sweeping Russia-Ukraine settlement in the near future.
The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has long centered on Nagorno-Karabakh, a 1,700-square-mile mountainous enclave inside Azerbaijan’s borders but historically home to ethnic Armenians. The decades-old tensions reignited in September 2023 when Azerbaijan imposed a blockade and then launched a military offensive, prompting the mass exodus of Armenians from the region.
While Azerbaijan maintained its actions were “anti-terrorist” operations against what it claimed were 10,000 illegally stationed Armenian troops, critics accused Baku of ethnic cleansing. For Armenians, the trauma carried echoes of the Armenian genocide of World War I, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire — an atrocity still denied by Turkey and Azerbaijan.
With Friday’s signing, Trump appears to have closed one of the world’s most intractable conflicts — while strengthening America’s economic and strategic footprint in a key global crossroads.
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