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.
