Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan have signed an agreement, aimed at ending decades of conflict, as they were hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House.
Trump said the agreement will reopen some key transport routes between the countries and increase US influence in the region. He added that Armenia and Azerbaijan had promised to stop all fighting forever as well as open up travel, business and diplomatic relations. The White House said that, as part of the deal, the US will also help build a major transit corridor that will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.
The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by Armenian territory. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan in the 1980s and 1990s and violence has flared up in the years since.
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