The treaty is also yet to be signed. At the White House, one Azerbaijani precondition for signature was resolved – a joint request for the dissolution of the mediation architecture set up in the 1990s by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), known as the ‘Minsk Group’.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HOSTED Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday to sign a peace agreement that could be a major step toward normalizing relations between the hostile neighbors.

Armenia and Azerbaijan published the text of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Monday, pledging to respect each other's territorial integrity and formally put an end to nearly four decades of conflict.