The Washington Post: peace agreement could be announced between  Azerbaijan and Armenia as leaders from countries meet with Trump

ArmInfo.  President Donald Trump will host leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Friday as he tries to broker a peace deal between two nations that  have been locked in a decades-long conflict, The Washington Post  reports. 

The meeting, first confirmed to The Washington Post by two senior  White House officials, is the latest example of the president's  efforts to bring about an end to international conflicts - and to  receive credit for doing so.

One of the White House officials, both of whom spoke on the condition  of anonymity to discuss plans not yet announced, said it was possible  that a peace agreement could be announced between Azerbaijan and  Armenia as leaders from the countries meet with Trump on Friday.

Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia's prime minister,  Nikol Pashinyan, are each expected to meet with Trump.

The two former Soviet territories have fought for the past several  decades, ever since the Nagorno- Karabakh region separated from  Azerbaijan to be governed by Armenia. The region was heavily made up  of an Armenian population before Azerbaijani troops took control of  it in September 2023, causing many ethnic Armenians to flee.

Ahead of his election, Trump vowed in an October Truth Social post to  "protect persecuted Christians," and blasted his opponent Kamala  Harris for doing "NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were  horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced." Trump said he would  "work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore  PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan."

Trump in June celebrated a peace agreement brokered by the United  States between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, doing so  with a signing in the Oval Office.

"In a few short months, we've now achieved peace between India and  Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a couple of  others, also," Trump said during the June Oval Office event.

The president has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by  multiple world leaders, a tactic they have used to both celebrate  Trump's peacekeeping efforts and to curry favor with him.

Cambodia's deputy prime minister said last week that the country  would nominate Trump, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  said in July he was nominating Trump for the prize. In June, Pakistan  declared it was nominating Trump after his efforts to bring about  peace in the violent conflict between Pakistan and India earlier this  year.

The Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be awarded in December.

Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan will visit  the United States of America on August 7-8, the press service of the  Armenian government reports.

"A bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US  President Donald Trump will be held in Washington to deepen the  strategic partnership between Armenia and the US, as well as a  trilateral meeting between Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald  Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, aimed at promoting  peace, prosperity and economic cooperation in the region," the  statement said.

"There has never been a peacemaker President like Donald Trump   Congo and Rwanda  Thailand and Cambodia  Pakistan and India And  soon Azerbaijan and Armenia. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!!!!,"  Joe Wilson, a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, wrote on  X.