After hosting a “historic peace summit” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which many people thought was impossible, President Trump is set to secure another Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

HISTORIC: President Trump Seals ANOTHER Peace Deal — Previously Considered Impossible!

The leaders of both nations agreed President Trump should receive the honor.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev suggested a joint appeal for Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"This is a tangible result of President Trump's leadership and no one could have achieved that," Aliyev said regarding Trump's role in helping end the decades-long conflict.

"Who, if not President Trump, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?" he questioned.

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Trump was jubilant at the signing ceremony at the White House alongside Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Trump proclaimed an end to a bitter conflict between the two Caucasus countries, which produced dozens of wars and skirmishes between the two neighbors over 35 years, and voiced confidence that the peace would hold in the long term.

“Now they’re friends, and they’re going to be friends for a long time,” Trump said. “You two are going to have a great relationship and if you don’t, call me and I’ll straighten it out.”

In achieving a long-elusive deal that has the potential to reshape a geostrategically critical region at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Trump benefited from good timing and years of concerted diplomatic efforts from high-level officials in the Biden administration. Armenia and Azerbaijan have also both shown a much greater willingness to negotiate an end to their conflict.

Per administration officials who briefed reporters ahead of the signing ceremony, what ultimately put the deal over the metaphorical goal line was the Trump’s decision to articulate a creative solution to one of thorniest issues in the dispute: the future of a stretch of Armenian territory between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave.

The agreement signed on Friday at the White House by Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan will see the United States administer a stretch of southern Armenia along Armenia’s border with Iran known as the Zangezur Corridor. An American company will further develop transportation links in the region, which in Trumpian fashion will be named after the president, to connect Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Trump "deserved" to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"We will defend that. We will promote for that," he added.

The praise from the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan follows Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize nomination from Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Manet.

President Trump Receives Nobel Peace Prize Nomination From Nation’s Prime Minister

"Boom! President Trump has officially brokered ANOTHER peace deal, ending a 30 year conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, on top of the Congo/Rwanda, India/Pakistan, Israel/Iran, and Thailand/Cambodia. At what point does he get the Nobel Peace Prize?" Charlie Kirk wrote.

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A few minutes later a reporter asked Trump if October 10, when the Norwegian committee is slated to make the announcement, was circled on his calendar.

“I can’t say,” Trump responded, adding that because he’s of “a certain persuasion, no matter what I do, they won't give it.”

“I'm not politicking for it,” said Trump. “I have a lot of people that are.”

Back in June, soon after Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir met with Trump in the wake of a four-day India-Pakistan conflict, the Pakistan government announced that it was nominating Trump for the Nobel Prize “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” during the conflict.

India did not credit Trump with playing a role in the ceasefire.

In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented Trump during a White House visit with a letter that he said he had sent to the Nobel committee nominating him for the prize.

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet announced on Aug. 7 that he had also nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his "direct attention to initiating and pushing for a ceasefire between the Cambodian army and Thai army" to stop the border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.

 

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