{"id":331764,"date":"2025-08-09T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331764\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:50:12","slug":"donald-trump-brokers-a-peace-plan-in-the-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331764\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE SOUTH CAUCASUS is a mosaic of warring rivals and closed borders. Lookout posts and bunkers dot its frontiers. On August 8th Donald Trump met Armenia\u2019s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and Azerbaijan\u2019s president, Ilham Aliyev, in an effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/international\/2025\/07\/10\/putins-war-in-ukraine-may-cost-him-control-of-the-south-caucasus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end the conflict<\/a> between their two countries. At the White House the trio signed a peace declaration and agreements on trade and security. Crucially, Armenia agreed to open an American-operated transport route across its territory, linking Azerbaijan to its exclave, Nakhchivan (see map). The corridor will be called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). \u201cA great honour for me,\u201d said America\u2019s president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE SOUTH CAUCASUS is a mosaic of warring rivals and closed borders. Lookout posts and bunkers dot its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[299,49,978,659,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-331764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115001493098975149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}