It is also reported that Armenia and Azerbaijan have been making strong diplomatic steps toward a lasting resolution to their decades of confrontation with each other, with both countries initiating a road map to a full-fledged peace agreement in the White House in August 2025. It is a discovery when the world is watching the South Caucasus country within the years of the UN passing in the General Assembly.
The diplomatic breakthrough was celebrated
On August 8, 2025, the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a peace deal at the White House with US President Donald Trump, which would restore normal ties between the two nations. There was good optics of smiling and shaking hands in the ceremony; a symbolic threshold being motioned after a period of over three decades of hostility.
The chiefs entered into a mutual treaty promising to never engage in war again and to break the cycle of hatred between the two countries by signing it. The pact would restore diplomatic relations between the two states after it had taken over 100 years to do so.
The peace accord, which will be finalised in March 2025 following bilateral talks without external arbitration, is such an act of achievement considering that the five preceding diplomatic discussions had failed severally. As explained by one of the Armenian diplomats, Third parties have their agendas, and they can work to the benefit or detriment.
The final agreement is threatened with a constitutional dispute
Nearly two years after the ceremony, Azerbaijan is still not willing to sign the peace agreement, holding out for Azerbaijan to amend its constitution. Baku insists on dropping the reference to a 1990 document, which recommended that, eventually, the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh would be reunited with Armenia, which is viewed as a claim by Azerbaijan.
Therefore, [so long as] this paragraph exists, there can be no peace accord, President Aliyev said, and his point of view, which includes the fact that constitutional language is the obvious territorial danger to Azerbaijan, has not changed. Armenia is scheduled to conduct a referendum on a new set of curtailments that would replace the objectionable language; however, mostly because of Azerbaijani bullying, the risk of Armenians turning down the reform might increase.
The corridor transport system is out of the Washington negotiations
Other than the peace deal, the White House gathering delivered a format for reconnecting Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan, via Armenian soil. The agreement, now known as the Trump route, is seen to present the issue of the sovereignty of Armenians and to address the Azerbaijani challenge of connectivity. The transport scheme appears to rule out the worst-case scenario many Armenians had been concerned about with the Zangezur corridor, in which Azerbaijan had then used language indicating that it would then enforce the route through the territory of Armenia.
Peace momentum is fuelled by the vision of regional integration
The two nations have a similar ambitious mission of regional economic integration that needs normalized relations. The Azerbaijan region is in the process of diversifying its economy by planning to transform it into a transport and trade hub, whereas Armenia is looking forward to seeing its border with Turkey open and connecting to the rest of the world.
Although the ceremony in the white house helped defuse tension and establish a bit of trust, their underlying issues remained on either side. A lot of fear of Azerbaijani territorial ambitions remains on behalf of many Armenians, and similarly on behalf of Azerbaijanis, about future Armenian efforts to gather a military edge and reclaim Karabakh. The Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process is an essential chance to achieve sustainability in the region.