{"id":331441,"date":"2025-08-09T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331441\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:49:10","slug":"armenia-azerbaijan-sign-historic-us-brokered-peace-deal-dw-08-08-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331441\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia, Azerbaijan sign historic US-brokered peace deal \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/08\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armenia<\/a>‘s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan<\/a> President Ilham Aliyev signed a historic peace deal on Friday at the White House in front of US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The deal, if it holds, would end almost four decades of tensions and conflict between the two nations over control of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a> in southwestern Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

“Today we are writing a great new history,” Azerbaijani\u00a0President Aliyev said as he addressed journalists at the White House together with Trump and Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aliyev thanked Trump for bringing “peace” to\u00a0the Caucasus region.<\/p>\n

Armenia’s Pashinyan said the deal represented “opening a chapter of peace,” calling it a success “for our countries and for our region.”<\/p>\n

He also commended Trump for his “legacy as a statesman and the peacemaker.”<\/p>\n

Trump said all three of them had an “extensive” conversation and had signed “voluminous documents” related to a peace deal.<\/p>\n

“It’s a long time, 35 years, they fought, and now they’re friends, and they’re going to be friends for a long time,” Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

US must stay engaged in Armenia-Azerbaijan deal: expert

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Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh<\/p>\n

Tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged in the late 1980s when Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous Azerbaijani region mostly populated by ethnic Armenians, broke away from Azerbaijan with support from Armenia.<\/p>\n

Azerbaijan took back full control of the region in 2023 in a military offensive, prompting almost all of the territory’s remaining 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Friday, Trump said the two countries had committed to stop fighting, open up diplomatic relations and respect each other’s territorial integrity.<\/p>\n

The US president also said he was lifting restrictions on US military cooperation with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Transit corridor at center of Armenia-Azerbaijan deal<\/p>\n

The wording of the agreement hasn’t yet been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But at the center of the deal is the establishment of a trade and transit corridor through the South Caucasus, which is to be named after Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 32-kilometer-wide (20-mile-wide) strip of Armenian territory.<\/p>\n

The deal grants the United States<\/a> exclusive development rights to the transit corridor, which the White House said would facilitate greater exports of energy and other resources in the region.<\/p>\n

The demand from Azerbaijan for a transit route to Nakhchivan had previously hindered peace talks.<\/p>\n

The two nations were also due to sign a letter officially requesting the dissolution of the Minsk Group, a now-defunct mediation body under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<\/p>\n

Russia’s\u00a0influence wanes in South Caucasus<\/p>\n

The deal between the two former Soviet republics strikes a geopolitical blow to Russia.<\/p>\n

Long after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has played the role of a de facto regional leader in the South Caucasus.<\/p>\n

But Russian influence in the region has drastically weakened in the past several years, especially as it is bogged down in its war against Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Armenians disappointed with Russia

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Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders say Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize<\/p>\n

Both leaders praised Trump for helping to end the conflict and said they would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet announced that he had nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for de-escalating a border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In early July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Trump for the prize.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly praised his own diplomatic efforts, saying he deserves the peace prize.<\/p>\n

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