President Donald Trump confirmed that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will travel to the White House on August 8 to sign a U.S.-brokered peace agreement formally ending their decades-long confrontation over Nagorno-Karabakh. The ceremony will cap thirteen months of back-channel talks led by special envoy Steve Witkoff, who shuttled between Yerevan and Baku after separate exploratory meetings in Washington last June. Senior administration aides say the deal emerged after both leaders accepted an American proposal linking a mutual recognition of sovereignty to a U.S.-financed transit corridor across Armenia’s Syunik province. Russian forces, which have maintained a limited peacekeeping presence in the region since 2020, were not invited to the signing but have been briefed through diplomatic channels.
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