"US Vice President JD Vance met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Tuesday and signed a strategic partnership agreement encompassing economic and security cooperation that Aliyev said would open new opportunities to work with the United States. Vance said the US would be sending an undisclosed number of "new boats" to Azerbaijan to help with "territorial waters protection" in the Caspian Sea."
"The US vice president is visiting Azerbaijan and Armenia as Washington seeks to expand its influence in the South Caucasus, a region where Russia has traditionally been the main power broker, but has seen its influence wane since it launched the war in Ukraine. Part of Vance's trip is consolidating a US-brokered peace process that was seen as a major step towards ending decades of war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which for years had been an ethnic Armenian enclave."
JD Vance met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku and signed a strategic partnership covering economic and security cooperation. The United States will send an undisclosed number of "new boats" to help protect Azerbaijan's territorial waters in the Caspian Sea. Aliyev described ties entering an entirely new phase, with planned cooperation on defense sales, artificial intelligence, and continued security and counterterrorism work. Vance said the agreement will formalize and solidify the US-Azerbaijan relationship. The visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia advances US efforts to expand influence in the South Caucasus amid waning Russian influence and to consolidate a US-brokered peace process around Nagorno-Karabakh, while also raising the issue of Armenian separatist leaders imprisoned in Azerbaijan on war crimes charges.
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