President Trump is putting infrastructure development and economic deals at the center of a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as the administration pushes to achieve a historic truce in a decade’s long conflict in the south Caucuses.

Trump will host Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev for a signing ceremony at the White House on Friday. Included in the deal is a call for developing a “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity,” and will be referred to by the acronym TRIPP.

The White House described it as a multi-modal transit area connecting mainland Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan enclave, an autonomous region that is bordered by Armenia, Iran and Turkey.

The White House said the transit corridor, which will cut through Armen

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