Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev signed a peace agreement on Friday in the presence of US President Donald Trump in Washington, after almost four decades of a bloody Karabakh conflict.
“We are today establishing peace in the South Caucasus,” Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev said. “Today we writing a great new history.”
Armenian Premier Pashinyan added that this agreement represented “opening a chapter of peace”. “(We are) laying foundations to a better story that the one we had in the past,” he added.
“The two countries are committing to ending all fighting forever,” Trump said at a joint press conference with the two leaders.
“They suffered greatly for so many years, many tried to find resolution, the European Union, the Russians, never happened,” he added. “But with this accord we finally succeeded in making peace.
Azerbaijan and Armenia were formerly Soviet Republics.
