U.S. Defense Ministry press: Trump administration should engage with Azerbaijan

Published: 2025-03-26 06:50

“Strategically located in the land bridge between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijan can play a key role in facilitating U.S. efforts and interests in the areas of the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East. As the only country in the world that borders both Iran and Russia, Baku can help Washington deal with the challenges that Moscow and Tehran present.

In view of the Azerbaijani victory in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023 and Azerbaijan and Armenia having announced agreement on the terms for a peace treaty to settle that decades-old conflict on March 13, as well as Israeli efforts to bring Azerbaijan into the Abraham Accords framework, the Trump White House should engage with this rising middle power in the South Caucasus in pursuit of U.S. national security interests,” writes Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Defense Ministry newspaper.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News