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- April 4, 2025 14:39 am
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US President Donald Trump is aiming to push Armenia and Azerbaijan towards signing a long-awaited peace agreement, Eric Jacobs, senior adviser to the US State Department's Bureau of Energy Resources, said on Friday. Reuters news agency reported.
Speaking at an energy event in Baku, Jacobs stressed that the peace treaty would usher in "a new era of security and prosperity" for the South Caucasus region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan announced last month that they had agreed on the text of a peace agreement to end the nearly four-decade conflict between the two countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The fighting over Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but until 2023 had a large Armenian population, began in the late 80s, when the two countries were part of the Soviet Union, which was on the verge of collapse.
The territory gained de-facto independence from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia through several wars, but in September 2023 the territory was retaken by Azerbaijan, through an offensive that forced almost all of the 100,000 ethnic Armenians to leave.
Since then, both countries have stated that they want a peace agreement, but talks have not been regular and progress has been slow until last month.
The peace agreement is not expected to be signed immediately as Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia first amend the Constitution to remove what Baku calls a reference to Karabakh's independence.
Since agreeing on the draft, both Armenia and Azerbaijan have also accused each other of attacks on positions along the heavily militarized border. No casualties have been reported in these incidents.
