Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting in Washington on August 8 set off a wave of celebration. The White House called it historic, and Western media was quick to report that thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s mediation, a decades-long conflict had finally been put to rest. Aliyev and Pashinyan even went so far as to say that Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. But the truth — believe it or not — is more complicated. For Meduza, Caucasus expert Roman Chernikov breaks down what really happened at the White House summit and what issues the two countries still need to resolve.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting in Washington on August 8 set off a wave of celebration. The White House called it historic, and Western media was quick to report t... [11432 chars]