As I’d written here- This agreement was not signed. The Azeri leader stated that quite clearly. It was clear from a number of reports as well. And yet, everyone ran with this as if it was a done deal. Including, but not limited to, the 2 Alex’s at The Duran.
Read what Sergei Lavrov states:
Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a bilateral peace treaty during talks between their leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on August 8. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian also
pledgedto give the United States exclusive rights to a transit corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave that would pass through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region
Initialed but not signed- It was all for the show. Pashinian pledged exclusive rights- Azerbaijan did not.
Trump, Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev claimed that these agreements put an end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Trump claimed that. The other 2, not quite.
We need to see how [the deal] will work because all the ecstatic reviews that were heard in the first few days after the meeting in Washington then somehow changed to skeptical assessments when the document was published,” said Lavrov. “And as it turns out, not everything was agreed upon there.”
Lavrov- “And as it turns out, not everything was agreed upon there.”
Exactly as I’d reported!
Lavrov suggested that the White House talks touted by Trump as yet another foreign policy achievement of the current U.S. administration
were first and foremost a publicity stunt.“I think that such a method [of foreign policy making] has the right to exist, but if nothing follows it, then it will simply remain
a flash in the pan,”he said. “But we are interested in a real peace treaty being concluded.”
“I think that such a method [of foreign policy making] has the right to exist, but if nothing follows it, then it will simply remain
a flash in the pan,”he said
Lavrov similarly said that Armenia and Azerbaijan reached in Washington the kind of agreements that they already negotiated together with Russia in 2020-2022.
As mentioned by yours truly!
Baku continues to make the signing of the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty, initialed at the White House, on a change of Armenia’s constitution. Also, the two sides have yet to agree on or at least publicize crucial details of what they call the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.
I get that I’m a bit of an outlier from an alternative perspective, but, my track record has been pretty good!
I’m going to relink the recent posts covering this flash in a pan diplomacy. Including a link back to the actual signed 2020 peace agreement
From August 08/25