When U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the White House on Friday, the meeting will culminate in the signing of a peace framework that includes exclusive U.S.

Donald Trump is hosting the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington this week for a summit which could advance a much-anticipated peace agreement between the two. The meeting would send a strong signal to Moscow regarding the two countries' commitment to finding a solution without Russia.

Armenia said Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will hold talks in Washington with US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev, as part of a diplomatic push to try to finalize a peace treaty ending decades of conflict between the two South Caucasus nations.