Washington – President Trump on Friday planned to announce an agreement for peace between two former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House, infamous sources told CBS News.
Sources said that the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia Prime Minister, Nicole Pashinian, will participate in programs in the Oval Office and State Dining Room, the sources said. Ink for the first time between the two heads, it comes as an agreement, American authorities, who want to deepen relations with the two countries, with energy production and transit as the major attraction.
Armenia has intended to declare US development rights on a 43 -km transit corridor, called “Trump Root for International Peace and Prosper”, which will help in providing access to the West, two sources said.
American officials have been working on an Armenia-Azerbaijan deal for months.
Tension between the two countries has been overcome for decades, in 2023, the most recently exploded in a lump sum struggle, when Azerbaijan Launched an aggressive In a disputed region, thousands of ethnic Armenians fled. A Ceasefire in September 2023 Facing a widespread war, and countries concluded negotiations on a peace treaty in March. But there is a point of view of strengthening the deal Stalled In the months, with a conversation in Abu Dhabi in July, a success failed to lead a success.
Special envoy Steve Witcoff traveled to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan in March. Former CEO of the Abraham Accord Peace Institute, Arya Lightstone has made several trips to the region as part of the peace deal talks. The Trump administration has stated that an Azerbaijan Shanti deal with its neighbor is necessary, before it could join the Abraham Agreement, as a plan to expand the agreement that was signed up in 2020 beyond Arab countries when he recognized Israel.
Sources said that admission is not expected on Friday. Both Vitcoff and Lightstone are expected to be at Friday’s summit.
Azerbaijan also makes the boundary of Russia, and has the ability to send oil and gas to Ukraine without passing through Russia. Sources said that the piece would open the routes to travel the west without crossing Russia for the pact goods – or Iran, the sources said.
Mr. Trump has expressed interest in the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokening the peace agreements privately, and the press secretary Karolin Lewitt has said that it is “well” to be honored with one.
“We stopped many countries from war – India and Pakistan. We stopped many countries,” he said on Sunday. “You have heard about Cambodia and Thailand. We have done so. We got the Congo, which was going on for 31 years – Rwanda, that someone did. We stopped a lot of wars.”
A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is a central priority for the White House, as the discussion continues Possible summit As soon as the next week between Mr. Trump and Vladimir Putin.
