
On August 8, 2025, in the gilded halls of the White House, a handshake between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev marked what many thought impossible – a declaration of peace between two nations divided by three decades of bloodshed.
The signing ceremony, staged with the characteristic flourish of Donald Trump, marked a genuine breakthrough. For the first time since the late Soviet era, Armenia, largely