(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday afternoon as the two countries signed a commitment to a peace agreement.
Both Pashinyan and Aliyev praised Trump for his work on resolving the conflict.
Although the signing was an agreement to work toward the conclusion of a peace deal, there are still issues to be worked through before there can be an agreement. However, Trump spoke as if a peace agreement was already a done deal.
“You two are going to have a great relationship, and if you don’t — call me and I’ll straighten it out," Trump said.
The two countries have been at odds for decades, with the conflict killing tens of thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands. At the center of