Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described the August 8, 2025 summit at the White House, hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, as a historic turning point in the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace process.
In a national address, Pashinyan stated:
“In the presence of the U.S. President, myself, and the President of Azerbaijan, our foreign ministers preliminarily signed the ‘Agreement on Peace and the Establishment of Interstate Relations Between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.’
A joint request was also signed to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group process and related structures.
Furthermore, we adopted a Joint Declaration by the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia, reflecting the outcomes of the Washington summit, also signed by President Trump.”
Pashinyan emphasized that the declaration included key agreements.
“The President of Azerbaijan and I reaffirmed our commitment to continuing the process toward the final signing and ratification of the peace agreement. We underscored the importance of preserving and strengthening peace between our two countries.”
The leaders also reiterated the importance of opening transportation and communication routes between Armenia and Azerbaijan to facilitate both domestic and international trade and transit, based on the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and mutual respect for jurisdiction.
“These efforts will include unimpeded transit between mainland Azerbaijan and the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic via Armenian territory, ensuring mutual benefits for both international and domestic transportation,” Pashinyan noted.
“Please note: we are speaking about bilateral and international transport links between the two countries, grounded in full respect for each state’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The Prime Minister also revealed that the declaration commits Armenia to working with the United States, and mutually agreed third parties, on defining the framework for a “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity” through Armenian territory.
“It was underlined that we are determined to take all good-faith measures to implement this goal as swiftly as possible.”
Additionally, Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agreed on the need to chart a Path to a Bright Future based on UN principles and the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, explicitly free from the legacy of past conflict.
“We declared that after the immense human suffering caused by war, the conditions have finally emerged to begin a new era of good-neighborly relations, based on the inviolability of international borders and the principle of the inadmissibility of the use of force to acquire territory,” Pashinyan said.
“We affirmed that this reality, which is not and must not be subject to revision, paves the way to close the chapter of hostility between our two peoples.
We firmly rejected and ruled out any acts of revenge, now or in the future.”
