Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev initialed a bilateral peace treaty during that summit. Pashinian also committed himself to opening a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan that will be named after Trump.
“The United States remains fully committed to working with Armenia and Azerbaijan as they build on this foundation,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement on the first anniversary of the summit.
The White House did not issue readouts of Trump’s calls with Aliyev and Pashinian. Nor did Trump comment on the conversations on his online Truth Social platform.
Both Aliyev and Pashinian were cited by their offices as praising the U.S. president for brokering the August 2025 agreements. An Armenian government statement said Pashinian and Trump “happily noted that the Washington Peace Summit led to real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Baku continues to make the signing of the peace treaty conditional on a change of Armenia’s constitution. While rejecting this condition in public, Pashinian has pledged to enact a new constitution. In parliamentary elections held in June, his party fell short of a two-third majority in the Armenian parliament necessary for doing that.
According to the Armenian readout, Pashinian also discussed with Trump the planned opening of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). It said the two leaders “reaffirmed their determination to begin work on the TRIPP in the near future.” A senior adviser to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff visited Yerevan and met with Pashinian and other Armenian leaders for that purpose last week.
Rubio mentioned the TRIPP in his statement. He said the project is “on its way to becoming a reality with engineering surveys for the railway in Armenia already underway and Azerbaijan’s near completion of a highway and railroad to connect into Armenia.”
