US president says he will oversee the deal, which includes plans for a new transit corridor called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that he will host the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia for a “historic peace summit”.Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, and Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, will meet with Trump at the White House on Friday for an official “peace signing ceremony,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.“These two Nations have been at War for many years, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Many Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to ‘TRUMP,’” he wrote.News of the talks in Washington was reported earlier this week when Pashinyan’s government announced the meeting in a statement on Telegram.The two countries, former Soviet republics, have faced off over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan with support from Armenia.The region, which was claimed by both Azerbaijan and Armenia after the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, had a mostly ethnic Armenian population at the time.The two sides fought a bloody war that lasted into the early 1990s, and the region has remained a major flashpoint ever since.The conflict resumed in 2020 when Azerbaijan tried to retake Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia.Azerbaijan recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023, prompting almost all of the territory’s 100,000 Armenians to flee to Armenia.The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates …
