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A peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan could be announced during the Friday meeting of the two countries’ leaders with US President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., The Washington Post reported citing a White House official.
The Armenian government has confirmed that the meeting will take place. It hasn’t provided other details.
One of the White House officials, both of whom spoke to WaPo on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans not yet announced, said it was possible that a peace agreement could be announced between Armenia and Azerbaijan as leaders from the countries meet with Trump on Friday, according to WaPo.
Ahead of his election as president, Trump vowed in a 2024 October Truth Social post to “protect persecuted Christians,” and blasted his opponent Kamala Harris for doing “NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced," referring to the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh perpetrated by Azeri forces.
Trump said he would “work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”