During a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, Azerbaijan and Armenia inked a peace deal mediated by the United States that would improve bilateral economic ties following decades of strife and take them closer to complete normalization of relations.
If it is successful, the agreement between the adversaries of the South Caucasus would be a major achievement for the Trump administration and would undoubtedly shock Moscow, which considers the region to be under its sphere of influence.
They fought for thirty-five years, but today they are friends and will remain so for a very long time. During a signing ceremony at the White House, Trump was accompanied by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
Since Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous Azerbaijani territory mostly inhabited by ethnic Armenians, broke away from Azerbaijan with Armenia’s help in the late 1980s, tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have existed. When Azerbaijan regained complete control of the area in 2023, nearly all of the 100,000 ethnic Armenians living there fled to Armenia.
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