US President Donald Trump has brokered a peace agreement between long-time adversaries Armenia and Azerbaijan.
On the 8th, Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint agreement at the White House in Washington, D.C., pledging a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The agreement is not a legally binding peace treaty.
Both Aliyev and Pashinyan expressed their gratitude for Trump’s mediation and voiced support for nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The New York Times analyzed the agreement as a sign of Russia’s waning influence over the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, and as a shift toward increased US presence in the South Caucasus region, which has traditionally been under Russian influence.
