Trump clinches Armenia-Azerbaijan deal -- along with some personal branding and more Nobel Peace Price talk [View all]

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Trump clinches Armenia-Azerbaijan deal — along with some personal branding and more Nobel Peace Price talk

Updated Aug 8, 2025, 5:04 PM ET
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2025, 9:51 AM ET
By Adam Cancryn, Alejandra Jaramillo

President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Friday, where they finalized a peace agreement that would grant the United States exclusive development access to a critical transit corridor in the South Caucasus, which will be named after Trump.

The deal is aimed at quelling long-simmering tensions between the two nations, while opening up the region for greater economic development — including through granting the US long-term, exclusive rights to carve a new transportation route through Armenian territory.

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And in a concession sure to delight Trump, who has sought to brand himself in his first six months in office as a global peacemaker, the corridor will be called the TRIPP — the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

The project will operate under Armenian legal jurisdiction, and the United States will in turn lease the land to a consortium responsible for construction and management, according to a senior administration official.

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