The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands as they joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday for a peace summit where they signed an agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict.

The two countries in the South Caucasus signed agreements with each other and the U.S. that will reopen key transportation routes while allowing the U.S. to seize on Russia’s declining influence in the region. The deal includes an agreement that will create a major transit corridor to be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, the White House said.

Both leaders said the breakthrough was made possible by Trump and his team and joined a growing list of foreign leaders and other officials who have said the U.S. leader should receive a Nobel Peace Prize —something he has coveted.

At the peace summit on Friday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said the transit corridor will “create connectivity opportunities for so many countries.”

“We are starting the path toward strategic partnership,” he said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the agreement a “significant milestone.”

“We are laying a foundation to write a better story than the one we had in the past,” Pashinyan said.

Pashinyan called the deal a success "for our countries and for our region and a success for the world" and commended Trump for his "legacy as a statesman and the peacemaker."

“President Trump in six months did a miracle,” Aliyev added.

That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 32-kilometer-wide (20-mile-wide) patch of Armenian territory. The demand from Azerbaijan had held up peace talks in the past.

Friday's signing adds to the handful of peace and economic agreements brokered this year by the U.S., while Trump has made no secret of his wish to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in helping to ease long-running conflicts across the globe.