Trump welcomes Armenia and the leaders of Azerbaijan as he continues another peace agreement

President Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday as he seeks to obtain an additional peace agreement to his credit after fighting in 2020.

“I can’t wait to welcome the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, at the White House tomorrow for a historic summit of peace,” Trump said in a social media position on Thursday evening.

“President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan will join me at the White House for an official peace signature ceremony,” he added. “The United States will also sign bilateral agreements with the two countries to continue economic opportunities together, we can therefore fully unlock the potential of the Southern Caucasus region.”

President Azerbaijani 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 / handout / anadolu presidency via Getty Images)

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Despite the President’s comments, familiar experts with current negotiations told Fox News Digital that leaders should not sign a formalized peace agreement, but rather a letter of intent after more than a year of negotiations.

However, even if an official peace agreement should not be signed, the meeting is still considered a major victory not only for regional stability, but also for Trump.

“I think they had an important position in this whole process,” Matias Perttula, director of Save Armenia, told Fox News Digital. “We have just returned from Armenia during last week (where) we had several government meetings, in particular with the national security advisor, the president of Armenia and some other ministries, and what we can say that the commitment of the Trump administration was much more robust than the Biden administration.”

An Azéri soldier stands near the trenches in a former Armenian military position of the separatists in the village of Mukhtar (Muxtar) recently by Azérais troops, during a media trip organized by the Azerian government, in the controlled region of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, October 3. 2023. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP via Getty Images)

President Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan should each meet Trump before signing a peace commitment between the two nations, which were sometimes involved since the late 1980s.

The conflict was largely focused on the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a mountainous area in Azerbaijan with a majority-Armenian population, but which declared independence in 1991.

While Armenia, with the international community, has never officially recognized the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic as an independent state, it has become its main financial and military funder.

The territory assumed a facto role in Armenia until the Azerbaijani forces overwhelm the Republic in a rapid campaign in September 2023, which caused mass evacuations of ethnic Armenians before being dissolved on January 1, 2024.

This region should remain a major problem in current negotiations.

A demonstrator carrying the Armenian national flag standing before Russian peacekeepers blocking the road outside Stepanakert, capital of the self-proclaimed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Davit Ghahramananan / AFP via Getty Images)

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Although the two nations announced in March that they had reached a consensus on the finalization of a peace agreement, several factors surrounding the mountainous region prevented a finalized agreement from being concluded, as has witnessed the July meeting between the leaders when they met with water but did not find a resolution.

The Azerbaijan request chief is that Armenia should modify its constitution and suppress all references to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Although this request is not a simple request that the simple pashinyan can accept because it would require a national referendum.

“There is no legal consequence,” Perttula told Fox News Digital, explaining that Armenian and American legal experts have refuted the request as without consequences and should therefore not serve as a precursor to reach a formalized peace agreement.

“There must be a real consideration for the right to return for the 120,000 Armenian Christians who have been forced to leave the lands of Nagorno-Karabakh which has been their ancestral homeland for centuries,” added Perttula. “I think this must be a key point in terms of formalization of all this peace agreement.”

“We want peace at the end of the day,” he added. “We want peace and normalization.”

Citizens visit their relatives at the Yerablur military cemetery, which was recently killed in September in Nagorno-Karabakh. (Images Anthony PizzoFerrato / Middle East / AFP via Getty Images)

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Trump, on the campaign track, underlined the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and accused the president of the time, Kamala Harris, of doing “nothing of 120,000 Armenian Christians was horribly persecuted and moved by force”.

Trump said that he would work to stop violence and ethnic cleaning, and we will restore peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan “.

Trump has repeatedly defended his thrust to end conflicts around the world and celebrated a peace agreement in June that the United States helped make the broker between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with an oval office signature.

“In a few months, we have now reached peace between India and Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a few others,” Trump said at the event.

President Donald Trump holds a document signed to present the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Congo, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, on the right, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Olivier Nduhungirehe, from left to left, Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio Watch on Friday, June 27, 2025 in the oval office of the White House Washington. (AP photo / manual Balce Ceneta)

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The President – who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as leaders of Pakistan and Cambodia – argued several times that his references should be recognized under the international prize which has been granted to four other American presidents.

At a February meeting with Netanyahu, Trump said: “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s a shame. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”

The White House last week was pressure for the president to win the award in December when the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “It went well that President Trump received the Nobel Peace Prize.”