Since this capitulating document was signed under duress, it is considered invalid under international law. Pashinyan is intentionally misrepresenting the “Peace Treaty” to convince the voters to return him to power in the 2026 parliamentary elections.
The actions of the Prime Minister and the authorities of Armenia with respect to the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church and its clergy.
When it comes to solutions, Claudia Bonamini believes that: “We should all try to go a little beyond our fears, keep an open mind, seek encounters, and see people as people. We should also make the effort not to believe everything we are told about migration, and maybe try to experience and understand it for ourselves.”
In the press, Yerevan is eagerly trying to sell it as a “win”: apparently commerce will flow, peace will be incentivized, and outside management will guarantee fairness—even security. In reality, the first manufactured crisis, border provocation, or “security” demand from Baku will shred those assumptions completely.
The initialing of an Agreement on the “Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, together with the “Joint Declaration” witnessed by the President of the United States last week, marks an important diplomatic milestone. Its true significance, however, will depend on whether it delivers tangible progress on the unresolved security, humanitarian, and sovereignty challenges that continue to threaten lasting peace.
Real peace and lasting stability in the region require solutions based on justice, balanced solutions acceptable to the parties, not residual outcomes built and imposed on coercion and geopolitical trade-offs.
Agreement on Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan
Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will host Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev in Washington. The meeting will likely end with an agreement on a transit route between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave—packaged as a U.S.-brokered breakthrough, perhaps even branded the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP).
On the surface, this might look like diplomacy. In reality, it follows the classic playbook of the #ShockDoctrine by @NaomiAKlein: exploit a fragile, post-war Armenia—shattered, isolated, and politically cornered—to push through a geopolitical and economic project that serves foreign interests and emboldens regional aggressors, all while Armenia is too destabilized, misguided, and weak to resist.
The Armenian government cannot continue operating in such a fiscally reckless and unlawful manner. There are seasoned experts among Diaspora Armenians who stand ready to offer strategic advice and guidance. All Armenia’s leaders need to do is ask and listen.
