Trump Hosts ‘Peace Deal’ With Azerbaijan and Armenia That Gives U.S. Access to Key Transit Route

TIME

President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia on Friday to sign a joint peace declaration aimed at ending nearly four decades of conflict between the two former Soviet states.

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00:00it's a long time 35 years they fought and now they're friends and they're going to be friends

00:07for a long time but it's a big beautiful honor to welcome everyone to the white house

00:14for this very historic peace summit between armenia and azerbaishan it's really a great

00:23thrill for me i love seeing good people get together and that's what you have you have two

00:28great leaders i want to congratulate these two visionary people prime minister

00:35passion yon and president aliev for coming to washington to sign this momentous joint

00:44declaration it's a tremendously important document and it's been a long time in coming they were

00:52explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there it never happened just never

00:57happened for more than 35 years armenia and azerbaishan have fought a bitter conflict

01:03that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations they suffered gravely for so many years

01:09many tried to find a resolution including the european union the russians worked very hard on

01:16it never happened sleepy joe biden tried but you know what happened there he tried for probably 12

01:22minutes and didn't work out and many other countries tried and they were unsuccessful but

01:29with this accord we've finally succeeded in making peace and we just left the oval office where we

01:36signed voluminous documents and very important elements to the agreement very importantly we have

01:43also resolved the key issue that foiled previous negotiations this declaration establishes what

01:50they are calling a great honor for me i didn't ask for this the trump route for international peace and

01:57prosperity which is a special transit area that will allow azerbaishan to get full access to its

02:05territory of nakchevin while fully respecting armenia's sovereignty so they're going to be able to

02:13really live and work together and uh it's amazing so that's a very important territory i guess very

02:21special territory to you and to you and now they work it together armenia is also creating an exclusive

02:27partnership with the united states to develop this corridor which could extend for up to 99 years

02:34and then they promise in 99 years they'll extend it right you'll promise i think president trump trump

02:42deserved uh to to to have a nobel peace prize and we will we will defend that and we promote we will

02:52promote for that and uh that's obvious so and today's event i think is a very bright expression of that

03:04and uh hopefully you will invite us to front front row you'll be front row yeah yeah we are in favor

03:15thank you thank you uh can i have a suggestion yes so maybe we agree with prime minister pashinyan

03:23to send a joint appeal to noble committee to award president trump with a noble peace prize because

03:31from the leaders of the countries which were at war for more than three decades having this historic

03:45signature here it really means a lot this is tangible result of president trump's leadership

03:54and no one could have achieved that there have been many presidents here since beginning of 90s

04:02and the so-called minsk process which by the way today we put an end to with my armenian colleague

04:10started in 1992 so negotiation under the auspices of osc continued for more than three decades

04:20without any result so who if not president trump deserves the noble peace prize i don't want to go

04:27into the history of some very strange decisions of a noble peace committee to award the prize for

04:35someone who didn't do anything at all but president trump in six months did miracle so i think that

04:43my armenian colleague will support it and judging by the reaction of the audience i think as soon as we

04:50come back we will agree to issue a joint letter and hopefully and i also join when president is awarded

04:59we hope that he will thank you invite us to the ceremony you certainly will be thank you very much

05:04do we have draft to sign now well we'll see what happens we already allowed to sign thank you very

05:13much it's very nice that is so great and we'll hold up how about holding up that document all right

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