White House reshapes U.S. policy in the Caucasus: leveraging Azerbaijan’s potential to prepare for regime change in Iran

On July 10, 2025, a meeting took place in the United Arab Emirates between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The outcome of the talks was an agreement to continue bilateral negotiations and the delimitation of their shared border.

The dialogue between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders marked a continuation of the prolonged peace process initiated after Azerbaijan’s reintegration of the Karabakh territory in September 2023.

In March 2025, Yerevan and Baku agreed on the text of a peace treaty between the two nations, though the timeline for its signing remained undefined due to statements from Azerbaijani officials citing indirect territorial claims against Azerbaijan in Armenia’s constitution.