Armenien

Reports are circulating in Armenia that a US delegation will soon travel to Yerevan to work out the details of a transit corridor [dubbed the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, or TRIPP] that is a key element of the provisional Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump.

[…] The group achieved little due to constant vetoes, co-chair tensions, and accusations of bias, with Azerbaijan seizing disputed territories in recent years. The dissolution could allow the OSCE to pass its first budget since 2021, but Russia's stance remains uncertain.

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen, and OSCE Secretary General Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu welcome the adoption of a Ministerial Council decision closing the Minsk process and related structures following a Joint Appeal from Armenia and Azerbaijan. … Only administrative functions, such as the handover of assets and equipment, will continue until the process is completed no later than 1 December 2025.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that a planned corridor linking Azerbaijan with its exclave would be under Armenian control, days after Iran said it would block the project included in a United States-brokered peace accord that puts a potential Washington presence on its doorstep.

The Armenia–Azerbaijan peace process has turned a new page following a trilateral summit between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump on 8 August. … Several documents – although not an actual peace treaty – were signed during the meeting in the Oval Office, hailed as a landmark in the convoluted negotiations between the two states.

Iran has said it will block a corridor planned in the Caucasus under a United States-brokered peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which has been hailed by other countries in the region as beneficial for achieving lasting peace. … The corridor, which would pass close to the border with Iran, would be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, or TRIPP, and operate under Armenian law.

The leaders of archrivals Armenia and Azerbaijan will convene at the White House on Friday in a "summit" that US President Donald Trump said will yield an "official Peace Signing" that aims to end a decades-long conflict between two former Soviet republics. 

Masked Armenian police were thwarted by clergy and church supporters who blocked agents as they attempted to detain a senior Armenian Apostolic Church cleric as a standoff between authorities and the church escalates.

Armenian authorities on Wednesday arrested a prominent Christian cleric, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, along with 13 other people and charged them with orchestrating a plot to overthrow the government.

France on Monday called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to “quickly” sign a finalized peace treaty, after efforts to hammer out an agreement between the two arch-foes appeared to stall.