
ArmInfo. 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.
US President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver an "announcement" from the Oval Office tomorrow at 4:30 PM ET (2 AM IST), the White House confirmed.
On the eve, former correspondent of the Azerbaijani agency Turan Alex Raufoglu, who lives in Washington, said that Armenia and Azerbaijan are ready to announce their intention to achieve peace in Washington this week. "According to sources, Trump (US President) is expected to receive Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday," he wrote on social media. Middle East Eye (MEE), citing regional sources familiar with the situation, announced that Yerevan and Baku will sign a Memorandum of Understanding in Washington on Friday. "The two leaders are expected to sign a rather than a draft peace agreement, which will provide Trump with the diplomatic achievement he has been seeking in the region since last month," the publication says.
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 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.
"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.