Diplomatic Meeting Arranged: Trump's Peaceful Gathering with Armenia and Azerbaijan
In a significant diplomatic move, Armenia and Azerbaijan have initialed and signed a formal peace agreement in August 2025, marking the end of decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The peace deal, publicly released on August 11, 2025, establishes peace and interstate relations based on recognized international legal principles [1][2][4].
The peace summit, announced by former U.S. President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform, is scheduled to take place at the White House on Friday. The summit's purpose is to sign the peace agreement, with participants including Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
In a twist, Trump claimed that he was the first to successfully attempt to end the conflict between the two countries. However, the exact details of the peace agreement have not been specified.
In addition to the peace agreement, the U.S. proposed and secured a landmark economic and transit corridor agreement, known as the TRIPP (Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity), along the Zangezur corridor. This agreement grants the U.S. exclusive special development rights for 99 years over the corridor land.
The corridor not only provides a direct transit route connecting Azerbaijan's exclave Nakhchivan with the main Azerbaijani territory and Turkey but also includes planned infrastructure projects such as railroads, oil, gas, fiber optics, and possibly electricity transmission under U.S. management. The aim of this U.S.-brokered deal is to boost regional connectivity while curbing the geopolitical influence of Iran, Russia, and China in the South Caucasus region.
The agreement includes multimodal infrastructure development - rail, energy, and digital communications - to facilitate trade and integration between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Central Asia. While Iran has expressed security concerns and threatened to block this corridor, the overall geopolitical and economic framework reflects a significant U.S.-brokered effort to stabilize the region and advance bilateral cooperation.
Since the peace agreement, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians had to flee the conflict region to the motherland. The conflict has left Armenia in a severe political crisis since 2023, when it lost control of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region to an attack by Azerbaijan.
This historic peace agreement and economic deal mark a significant step towards stability and cooperation in the South Caucasus region.
[1] Peace Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, August 2025, [link] [2] U.S.-Brokered Peace Agreement and Economic Deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, August 2025, [link] [4] Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Resolution: A New Era of Peace and Prosperity, August 2025, [link]
- The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, signed in August 2025, is a topic of general news, as it marks the end of decades-long war-and-conflicts over Nagorno-Karabakh and establishes a new era of peace and interstate relations.
- The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) agreement, a landmark economic and transit corridor deal along the Zangezur corridor, is a significant political move, as it aims to curb the geopolitical influence of Iran, Russia, and China in the South Caucasus region.
