BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 8. The European Union
has welcomed the progress made in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace
process since the historic Washington Summit held on August 8,
2025.
The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the
crisis in Georgia Magdalena Grono wrote about this on her X
page.
“Today marks the first anniversary of the historic Washington
Summit of Armenia, Azerbaijan and U.S. leaders on 8 August 2025,”
the EU said in a statement.
The EU strongly welcomed the series of positive and constructive
steps taken since the summit to further institutionalize and
advance the peace process.
On August 8, 2025, following a trilateral meeting with U.S.
President Donald Trump in Washington, President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint
declaration on establishing peace between Baku and Yerevan and
restoring transport connectivity between mainland Azerbaijan and
the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The initiative was named the
"Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity."
As part of the meeting, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun
Bayramov and Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan initialed
the draft "Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate
Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of
Armenia" and signed a joint appeal by the foreign ministers of
Azerbaijan and Armenia to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office calling
for the termination of the OSCE Minsk Process, the mandate of the
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the
conflict dealt with by the Minsk Conference, and the High-Level
Planning Group.
