Azerbaijan and Armenia sign a peaceful deal at the White House summit

Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders have signed an agreement aimed at ending the decades of conflicts, as President Donald Trump was held at the White House on Friday.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian shook his hand after the US president called the historical event.

“A long time has passed,” said Trump about an agreement that will open up some key transport routes between the countries and increase the United States’s influence in the region.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought for Nagorno-karabes, ethnically Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, in the 1980s and 1990s, and violence broke out in these years.

On Friday, Trump said Armenia and Azerbaijan promised to stop all fights “forever”, as well as opening travel, business and diplomatic relations.

“Today we set peace in the Caucasus,” Aliyev said. “We have lost many years, engaged in wars, occupation and bloodshed.”

Pashinyan called the signing a “significant milestone” between the two countries.

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

The White House was told that the US transaction would also help build a major transit corridor, which will be named Trump’s route for international peace and well -being.

The route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous overlap -exclaus, which is separated by the Armenian territory. In the past, Aliyev demanded from Armenia to give it to the country the railway corridor sloped.

Armenia wanted to control the road, and the Azerbaijan leader threatened to accept the corridor in the past. The issue stopped and stopped preliminary peace talks.

Both leaders praised Trump and his team throughout the meeting: “President Trump has made a miracle in six months,” Aliyev said.

Trump said he also signed a bilateral agreement with both countries to expand energy trade and technology.

The US president sought to conclude peace deals between several warring countries during his second term.

The Friday summit also means expanding its influence in the region at the expense of Russia. For more than a century, the Kremlin has played the role of power and peace there.

Most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin acted as the main mediator in the conflict. The last agreement signed by Aliyev and Pashinan was developed by Putin.

With Trump, which brings together both countries, Putin is largely out. Moscow worked to insert its interests into peace talks, but both sides abandoned these proposals for the benefit of the American decision.

The announcement on Friday happened shortly before Trump announced that he would meet Putin for talks in Alaska next week.