President Donald Trump will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday as he looks to secure one more peace deal under his belt following fighting that reignited in 2020. 

“I look forward to hosting the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, and the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, at the White House tomorrow for a Historic Peace Summit,” Trump said in a Thursday night social media post.

“President Aliyev AND Prime Minister Pashinyan will join me at the White House for an official Peace Signing Ceremony,” he added. “The United States will also sign Bilateral Agreements with both Countries to pursue Economic opportunities together, so we can fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus Region.”

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, right, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan meet in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on July 10, 2025. (Azerbaijani Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump, while on the campaign trail, highlighted the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and accused then-Vice President Kamala Harris of doing “NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced.” 

Trump said he would “work to stop the violence and ethnic cleansing, and we will restore PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan.”

Trump has repeatedly championed his push to end conflict across the globe and in June celebrated a peace agreement that the U.S. helped broker between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with an Oval Office signing. 

“In a few short months, we’ve now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a couple of others, also,” Trump said during the event. 

President Donald Trump holds up a signed document to present to Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, right, as Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, from left, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio watch on Friday, June 27, 2025 in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The president – who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as leaders from Pakistan and Cambodia – has on several occasions argued his credentials should be recognized under the international award that has been granted to four other U.S. presidents. 

In a February meeting with Netanyahu, Trump said, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.” 

The White House last week lobbied for the president to win the award come December when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”