Aliyev thanks Trump, shares photo with Pashinyan

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed gratitude to U.S. President Donald Trump for advancing the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia and shared a photo of him and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

"Thank you, President Donald Trump, for your kind words on your TruthSocial account," Aliyev wrote on X on Wednesday. "I deeply appreciate your important role in advancing the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia and in hosting the historic Washington Summit. You are the architect of the eternal friendship and the emerging strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and the United States. I greatly value our friendship."

"Such an Honor to have helped settle the War with Azerbaijan and Armenia and, at the same time, become friends with these two Great Leaders and Men, President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. It will be an everlasting friendship for me but, more importantly, for the United States of America!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social earlier.