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RSC ASSESSES ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENTS

Media 29 August 2025

At the invitation of the Foreign Policy magazine in Washington, RSC Director Richard Giragosian authored a brief analytical article on Armenian-Azerbaijani diplomacy, published on 29 August:

A Trump-Brokered Peace Deal in the South Caucasus Is Hopeful but Incomplete
The Armenia-Azerbaijan summit in Washington offered progress, but also serious doubts.
By Richard Giragosian, the director of the Regional Studies Center, an independent think tank in Yerevan, Armenia.

In what has been widely hailed as a breakthrough, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Aug. 8 for what was termed a “peace summit.” The ceremonial summit featured separate bilateral meetings between Trump and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as well as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and then moved on to the main event—the signing of a “joint declaration” by all three.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/29/armenia-azerbaijan-trump-russia-turkey-peace/

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