President Trump expressed optimism that the long-standing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan appears to be nearing a “successful conclusion.” “It looks like it’s going to come to a conclusion, a successful conclusion,” Trump said regarding a pending peace agreement between the two countries that have been in an ongoing conflict for decades. Footage below: Trump just now: “…we solved another one — that we just seem to have — Armenia and Azerbaijan. It looks like that’s going to come to a conclusion, a successful conclusion." https://t.co/Can0xnFadj pic.twitter.com/zuWkRuPotd — Hov Nazaretyan (@HovhanNaz) July 14, 2025 Just the News noted: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met last week in Abu Dhabi, in the sides’ efforts to end years of conflict. Both sides ended the talks suggesting they are now closer than anytime time before to formalizing a peace treaty, according to the independent information and analysis website commonspace.eu. A peace agreement between the two nations is of U.S. interest, Victoria Coats, a former Trump deputy national security adviser, recently told Just the News. U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack revealed the United States has proposed leasing control of a 32-kilometer transport route through Armenia’s Syunik Province for 100 years. Azerbaijan refers to the area as the “Zangezur Corridor.” “They’re arguing over 32 kilometers of road,” Barrack said. “So what happens is America comes in and says, ‘okay we’ll take it over,'” he continued. “Give us the 32 kilometers of road on a 100 year lease and you can all share it,” he added. Watch below: U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye, Tom Barrack, on the Zangezur Corridor: “Türkiye, Armenia & Azerbaijan are arguing over 32 km of road. Then the U.S. says: ‘Lease it to us for 100 years and you can share it.” pic.twitter.com/tVlC04T5v0 — The Azeri Times (@AzeriTimes) July 14, 2025 Reuters provided further details: In statements, the countries’ two foreign ministries said Pashinyan and Aliyev had discussed items including the delimitation of their shared 1,000-km (621-mile) border and agreed to continue dialogue at various levels. A senior Azerbaijani government source said the talks took place in a “highly constructive atmosphere.” Armenia said the sides had agreed to continue talks on a bilateral basis and that the dialogue had been “result-oriented”. A peace deal could transform the South Caucasus, an energy-producing region neighbouring Russia, Europe, Turkey and Iran that is criss-crossed by oil and gas pipelines but riven by closed borders and longstanding ethnic conflicts. Armenia and Azerbaijan, which both won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, have been at loggerheads since the late 1980s when Nagorno-Karabakh – an Azerbaijani region that had a mostly ethnic-Armenian population – broke away from Azerbaijan with support from Armenia. In 2023, Azerbaijan retook Karabakh, prompting about 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia. Both sides have since said they want to sign a treaty on a formal end to the conflict. Some issues, including Azerbaijan’s demand that Armenia change its constitution to remove an indirect reference to Karabakh, are yet to be resolved. Russia, which previously deployed peacekeepers in Karabakh, said it fully supported the diplomatic process and hoped it would bring “predictability, stability and peace to the region.”