Israeli think tank: A year of peace (the Kremlin never wanted)

Published: 2026-08-17 17:18

"The economic side of the deal has moved from slogan to survey stakes: engineering work for the Armenian segment of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, or TRIPP, is underway, Azerbaijan’s own transportation infrastructure is close to finished, and a Trans-Caspian Enterprise Fund has been capitalized at more than 200 million dollars to help finance the corridor. Pashinyan, for his part, told Armenians on the anniversary that peace was “visible and tangible,” pointing to his party’s showing in Armenia’s June 2026 parliamentary elections as evidence that voters had ratified the settlement rather than merely tolerated it. None of this erases the difficulty of the years that preceded it, but it does suggest that a settled, if imperfect, peace is producing more for ordinary Armenians and Azerbaijanis than an unsettled one ever did," according to Israeli think tank Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA).

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News