Donald Trump Signs a Trilateral Agreement with Armenia and Azerbaijan - August 8, 2025 wrote:
They were explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there. It never happened, just never happened. I also want to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and their teams at the State Department. And I see that we have Chris Wright, outside and Senator Steve Daines sitting right here.
Thank you, Chris. Thank you, very much. And Steve, thank you very much. And we have some other wonderful dignitaries including the dignitaries from your country, but they provided tremendous diplomatic assistance. And Marco, congratulations. It's a big thing, keep going. He's got many jobs. And then, of course, you would say Steve was quite influential.
I call him Henry Kissinger, who doesn't leak. For more than 35 years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations. They suffered gravely for so many years. Many tried to find a resolution, including the European Union. The Russians worked very hard on it, never happened.
Sleepy Joe Biden tried, but you know what happened there. He tried for probably 12 minutes and didn't work out. And many other countries tried and they were unsuccessful. But with this accord, we've finally succeeded in making peace, and we just left the Oval Office, where we signed voluminous documents and very important elements to the agreement.
The country of 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, so importantly. And I just spent a lot of time with these two men. I think they're going to have a great relationship, you want to know the truth.
They didn't see each other that much, but they probably will. I think they're going to have -- I think you two are going to have a great -- a great relationship. I have no doubt. And if you don't, call me and I'll straighten it out, OK? Very importantly, we have also resolved the key issue that foiled previous negotiations.
This declaration establishes what they are calling, a great honor for me. I didn't ask for this, the Trump route for International Peace and Prosperity, which is a special transit area that will allow Azerbaijan to get full access to its territory of Nakhichevan, while fully respecting Armenia's sovereignty.
So they're going to be able to really live and work together, and it's amazing. So, it's a very important territory, I guess, very special territory to you and to you and now they work it together. Armenia is also creating an exclusive partnership with the United States to develop this corridor, which could extend for up to 99 years.
And then they promise in 99 years, they'll extend it, right? You'll promise, but we anticipate significant infrastructure development by American companies. They're very anxious to go in to these two countries and they're going to spend a lot of money, a lot of money, which will economically benefit all three of our nations.
This is incredibly positive news for the future of the entire region and it's a very important region, as you know. Additionally, the US is signing a bilateral agreement with both countries to expand cooperation in energy trade and technology, including AI. And in terms of energy, Chris is here representing our country and there's nobody better than Chris Wright.
And Chris, I understand it's very fertile, it's very fertile area, so I appreciate everything you've done. You've done amazingly well.
You've got -- we've got the gasoline prices coming way down from where they were and it's really been something to watch. We are drilling like we haven't drilled in many years, I guess I could say ever before. And we just -- we just started. We're also lifting restrictions on defense cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States of America.
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