When U.S. President Donald Trump hosts the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House this Friday, the meeting will culminate in the signing of a peace framework agreement that grants the United States exclusive rights to develop a strategic transit corridor through the South Caucasus.
This was reported by Reuters, citing official sources.
According to these officials, the parties will sign a document aimed at establishing a “clear path to peace” and resolving the long-standing transit issue.
The publication states that under a carefully coordinated section of the documents to be signed on Friday, Armenia intends to grant the U.S. exclusive special rights for the long-term development of this transit corridor. The corridor will be called the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity”, or TRIPP for short, the officials said.
The route will operate under Armenian law, while the U.S. will sublease the land to a consortium responsible for infrastructure development and management, they added.
“This step, through commercial mechanisms, will open up the region and prevent further military escalation,” one official noted.
The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia will also sign documents to dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group.
“Progress on the Armenia–Azerbaijan issue began in March, when U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff visited the region. His team made several follow-up trips to help facilitate the agreement,” the article notes.
American officials believe that the peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia could pave the way for Azerbaijan’s potential participation in the Abraham Accords—a series of normalization agreements Trump brokered between Israel and four Muslim-majority countries during his first term.
According to U.S. government sources, TRIPP is a large-scale development and joint venture agreement between the United States and Armenia for the construction of a route through Armenia’s southern region. This route will ensure unimpeded commercial access for Azerbaijan from its mainland to Nakhchivan.
A key feature of the project: it is commercial, not military or security-related. The U.S. will not deploy troops but will take responsibility for the safe operation of the route through agreements with “top-tier operators.”
The name TRIPP was deliberately chosen to avoid the politically charged term “corridor,” often associated with Russian influence.
The project is being framed as an opportunity to transform the entire Middle Corridor, enhancing trade and transportation flows—electricity, oil, gas, fiber optics—across the region and onward to Europe.
