Azerbaijan and Armenia leaders signed an agreement with the aim of ending the decades of the struggle as they were hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinian joined hands after describing the incident as the “historic” of the US President.
“It’s a long time,” Trump said about the agreement, which will reopen some major transport routes between countries and increase the American influence in the region.
Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting on Nagorno-Karbakh, which is an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. He fought a war on Enclave in the 1980s and 1990s and violence erupted since the violence.
On Friday, Trump said Armenia and Azerbaijan promised to stop all the fights “forever” as well as stopping the journey, business and diplomatic relations.
“We are establishing peace in the Caucasus today,” said Aliyev. “We lost for many years with wars and occupation and bloodshed.”
Pashinian signed a “important milestone” in relations between the two countries.
Trump said, “Thirty five years they used to fight, and now they are friends and they are going to be friends for a long time.”
The White House stated that, as part of the deal, the US will also help in building a major transit corridor, which will be named Trump Marg for international peace and prosperity.
The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous nakhivan exclusive, which are separated by the Armenian region. In the past, Aliyev has demanded that Armenia gave his country a rail corridor to Nakhichwan.
Armenia wanted to control the road and the Azerbaijan leader threatened to take the corridor in the past. The issue stopped and stopped the previous peace talks.
The two leaders praised Trump and his team during the meeting, “In six months, President Trump performed a miracle,” said Aliyev.
Trump said that he had also signed a bilateral agreement with both countries to expand energy and technology trade.
Trump has demanded a peace deal between many warning countries during his second term.
The summit also shows the US on Friday, which expands its influence in the region at the price of Russia. For more than a century, Kremlin has played the role of power and peace broker there.
Recently, Putin himself has worked as the main intermediary in the struggle. The final agreement signed by Aliyev and Pashinian was prepared by the Russian President.
Putin has been sidelined to a large extent, with Trump now bringing together the two countries together. Moscow has worked to include his interests in peace talks, but both sides left those proposals in favor of an American solution.
President Trump announced on Friday on Friday that he would meet Putin for a conversation in Alaska next week.