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President Donald Trump is set to welcome the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Friday, aiming to finalize another peace agreement after conflicts resumed in 2020.
Trump announced on social media Thursday night, “I am eager to meet Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, for a Historic Peace Summit at the White House tomorrow.”
“President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan will accompany me for an official Peace Signing Ceremony at the White House,” Trump stated. “Additionally, the United States will sign separate Bilateral Agreements with each country to explore joint Economic opportunities, seeking to maximize the potential of the South Caucasus Region.”
An earlier meeting in Abu Dhabi between President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia took place on July 10, 2025, according to an image provided by the Azerbaijani Presidency.
On the campaign trail, Trump drew attention to the Armenia-Azerbaijan dispute and criticized then-Vice President Kamala Harris for allegedly neglecting the situation where he claimed “120,000 Armenian Christians faced persecution and displacement.”
Trump said he would “work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Trump has consistently promoted his efforts to resolve global conflicts and in June celebrated a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, facilitated by the U.S., with a signing ceremony at the Oval Office.
“In a few short months, we’ve now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a couple of others, also,” Trump said during the event.
President Donald Trump holds up a signed document to present to Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, right, as Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, from left, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio watch on Friday, June 27, 2025 in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The president – who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as leaders from Pakistan and Cambodia – has on several occasions argued his credentials should be recognized under the international award that has been granted to four other U.S. presidents.
In a February meeting with Netanyahu, Trump said, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”
The White House last week lobbied for the president to win the award come December when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
