President Donald Trump will organize the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday, while trying to ensure a peace agreement under his belt after fighting that will be created again in 2020.
“I look forward to organizing the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, in the White House, in the White House tomorrow for a historic Peace Summit,” Trump said in a social media post in a Thursday evening.
“President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan will accompany me at the White House for an official peace ceremony,” he added. “The United States will also sign bilateral agreements with both countries to pursue economic opportunities together, so that we can completely unlock the potential of the South Kaucasus region.”
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Right, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meet in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on July 10, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty images)
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Even if an official peace agreement is expected, the meeting is still seen as a big win for not only regional stability, but also for Trump.
An Azeri soldier is close to trenches in a former Armenian separatists military position in the village of Mukhtar (Muxtar) that was recently restored by Azeri troops, during a media trip organized by Azeri, in the controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on 3 October 2023. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty images)
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is expected to meet Trump before signing a promise for peace between the two nations, which have been engaged in the brutal conflict since the end of the 1980s.
The conflict was largely focused on the status of the Nagorno-Karabach region, a mountainous area in Azerbaijan with a majority of Armenic population, but that declared independence in 1991.
While Armenia, together with the international community, never formally recognized the Nagorno-Karabach republic as an independent state, it became his most important financial and military backer.
The territory took on a de facto role in Armenia until Azerbaijani troops overwhelmed the Republic in September 2023, which led to mass evacuations of ethnic Armenians being dissolved on January 1, 2024.
This region is expected to remain a major problem in the current negotiations.
A demonstrator who carries the Armenian national flag stands for Russian peacemakers who block the road outside Stepanakert, the capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabach region of Azerbaijan, on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Davit Ghahramanyan/AFP via Getty images)
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Although both countries announced in March that they had reached a consensus on completing a peace agreement, various factors around the mountainous area prevented a definitive agreement, as witnessed in the July meeting between the leaders when they met in the UAE, but did not find a resolution.
The most important of the requirements of Azerbaijan is that Armenia must change its constitution and remove all references to the Nagorno-Karabach territory. Although this question is not a simple request that only Pashinyan can agree, because it would require a national referendum.
“There must be a real consideration for the right to return for the 120,000 Armenian Christians who are forced the countries of Nagorno-Karabakh that are their ancestor home country for centuries,” added Perttula. “I think this should be an important point in terms of formalizing this entire peace agreement.”
“We want peace at the end of the day,” he added. “We want peace and normalization.”
Burgers visit their loved ones on Yerablur Military Cemetery who recently killed Nagorno-Karabach in September. (Anthony Pizzoferrato/Central -East images/AFP via Getty images)
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Trump, while on the campaign track, emphasized the conflict of Armenia-Azerbaijan and accused the then vice-president Kamala Harris of “nothing like 120,000 Armenian Christians were horribly persecuted and forced displaced”.
Trump said he “would work to stop violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Trump has repeatedly defended his push to end the conflict all over the world and celebrated a peace agreement in June that helped the US between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with an Oval Office sign drawing.
“In a few short months we have now reached peace between India and Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and also a few others,” Trump said during the event.
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The president – who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as leaders from Pakistan and Cambodia – has argued on various occasions that his faith should be recognized under the International Award who has been assigned to four other US presidents.
In a meeting with February with Netanyahu, Trump said: “They will never give me a Nobel Prize in peace. It’s a shame. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”
The White House lobbyed last week for the president to win the prize in December when press secretary Karoline Leavitt of the White House said: “It is ample time that President Trump received the Nobel Prize for Peace.”
