Azerbaijan and Armenia sign the peace agreement at the top of the White House

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia signed an agreement to end decades of conflict because they were organized by President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.

President Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan leaned his hand after the American president described the event as “historic”.

“It was long to come,” said Trump about the agreement, which will reopen certain key transportation between countries and increase the influence of the United States in the region.

Azerbaijan and Armenia argued for Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. They fought a war against the enclave in the 1980s and 1990s and violence has flared in the years that followed.

Trump said on Friday that Armenia and Azerbaijan had promised to stop all fights “forever” as well as the opening of travel, business and diplomatic relations.

“Today we establish peace in the Caucasus,” said Aliyev. “We have lost many years concerned with wars and occupation and blood effusions.”

Pashinyan described the signature of “important step” in relations between the two countries.

“Thirty-five years old, they have fought, and now they are friends and they are going to be friends for a long time,” said Trump at the event.

The White House said that, as part of the agreement, the United States will also help build a Major de Corridor de Transit which will be appointed the Trump path for international peace and prosperity.

The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous exclave from Nakhchivan, which are separated by an Armenian territory. In the past, Aliyev demanded that Armenia give his country a railway corridor in Nakhichevan.

Armenia wanted to have road control and Azerbaijani chief in the past threatened to take the corridor forcibly. The question has interrupted and blocked previous peace negotiations.

The two leaders welcomed Trump and his team throughout the meeting “” President Trump in six months made a miracle, “said Aliyev.

Trump said he had also signed a bilateral agreement with the two countries to extend energy and technology trade.

Trump sought to conclude peace agreements between several countries at war during his second term.

Friday, the summit also means that the United States widens its influence in the region to the detriment of Russia. For more than a century, the Kremlin has played the role of power of power and peace.

More recently, Putin himself acted as the main mediator of the conflict. The latest agreement signed by Aliyev and Pashinyan was designed by the Russian president.

Trump now bringing together the two countries, Putin is widely sidelined. Moscow worked to insert his interests in peace talks, but the two parties abandoned these proposals in favor of an American solution.

Friday’s announcement came shortly before President Trump’s announcement that he would meet Putin for interviews in Alaska next week.