Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a US-brokered peace deal at the White House, committing to end decades of conflict. The agreement includes commitments to stop fighting, respect sovereignty, and open commerce and diplomatic relations. Additionally, the leaders signed economic agreements to develop a strategic transportation corridor across the South Caucasus. The corridor, named Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, would link Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan exclave, facilitating trade and travel, while being developed by private corporations without US funding.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel and diplomatic relations and respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The economic agreements could set the stage for a reopening of a strategic transportation corridor across the South Caucasus that has been shut since the early 1990s.
The corridor will link Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave, which is separated from the rest of the country by an arm of Armenian territory 32 kilometers wide.
The deal does not call for the United States to pay for the construction of the transit corridor, but instead calls on private corporations to develop it.
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