WASHINGTON — President Trump will host the leaders of longtime adversaries Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House on Friday to sign a peace accord built around a new railway route in the region.

The US-developed transit initiative — dubbed the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” — will transect the sparsely populated south of Armenia, the world’s oldest Christian nation, while linking Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, on the Caspian Sea to its Nakhchivan exclave touching Turkey.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet Trump separately before an afternoon signing ceremony. 3

A Trump administration official said approval of the corridor gives Armenia an “enormous strategic commercial partner” in the US while handing Az

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