Trump achieved incredible opportunities for South Caucasus — US Congressman VIDEO

U.S. President Donald Trump has achieved incredible opportunities for the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus with Azerbaijan and Armenia, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson has said.

"President Trump has achieved incredible opportunities for the Black Sea region and the Caucasus with Azerbaijan and Armenia," he said during hearings at the Helsinki Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “Deterrence on NATO’s Eastern Flank,” per Caliber.Az.

Wilson was thus commenting on Trump's role in facilitating the August 8, 2025, White House trilateral summit between Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. This meeting produced a joint declaration and framework for a comprehensive peace treaty, including the establishment of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP)—a U.S.-brokered multimodal corridor through southern Armenia connecting Azerbaijan to its exclave Nakhchivan.

The route, approximately 40–43 km long in Armenia’s Syunik Province, includes rail, road, gas and oil pipelines, power lines, and fibre-optic cables. It is part of ongoing Azerbaijan-Armenia normalisation efforts following the 2020 Karabakh war and subsequent anti-terror operation in 2023 that fully restored Azerbaijan’s sovereignty.

By Khagan Isayev