"During a two-day swing through Yerevan and Baku - capitals no sitting U.S. president or vice president had visited - Vance trumpeted plans for a new transit corridor that would transform a derelict stretch of Soviet-era railway into the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) - a 26-mile trade link through Armenia, connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave and to Turkey while bypassing Russia and Iran."
"The project was at the heart of a Washington-brokered peace framework signed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House in August, which President Donald Trump billed as an end to an "unendable war" between the two countries, which had fought for decades over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. While Trump has hailed the agreement as proof of his peacemaking acumen, the fighting effectively ended in 2023 with decisive military action by Azerbaijan and a surrender by Armenia."
Vice President JD Vance visited Yerevan and Baku and offered Armenia and Azerbaijan trade and security deals aimed at loosening dependence on Moscow and reducing Iran's influence. Vance promoted the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), a proposal to convert a derelict Soviet-era rail line into a 26-mile corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave and to Turkey while bypassing Russia and Iran. TRIPP formed part of a Washington-brokered peace framework signed at the White House in August and touted as ending an "unendable war." The 2023 fighting ended after decisive Azerbaijani military action and Armenian surrender. The initiative reflects transactional U.S. diplomacy and intensifies great-power competition in the South Caucasus.
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