Witkoff: Armenian Prime Minister and  Azerbaijani President are good  friends

ArmInfo. The United States sealed the deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia in just six weeks, as stated by US Special Presidential Envoy Steven Witkoff at the 2026 Real Estate  Impact Conference at the University of Miami.

"They were at war for 37 years, and now they are best friends. The  Armenian Prime Minister and Azerbaijani President Aliyev are good  friends. They were  brought together by US President Donald Trump,  which is remarkable. This deal was the simplest, and the New York  Times didn't know about it, so they couldn't say anything bad about  it," he noted.

Recall, on August 8, 2025, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint seven-point  Declaration of Peace in Washington. It envisages a joint appeal to  the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to  terminate the OSCE Minsk process and related structures, as well as  the creation of a transport corridor through Armenian territory that  will connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave, surrounded by  Armenia, Turkey and Iran.