Fresno voices weigh in on Trump's Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A historical bid statement betwixt Azerbaijan and Armenia.

President Trump hosted the 2 leaders astatine the White House connected Friday to hold connected reopening proscription routes successful the region.

"We yet succeeded successful making bid and we conscionable near the oval bureau wherever we signed voluminous documents and precise important elements to the agreement," the President said.

The transit corridor is expected to beryllium called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.

The corridor volition person a obstruction line, lipid and state lines, arsenic good arsenic allowing the question of goods.

White House officials accidental the woody volition assistance with connecting the 2 countries portion inactive respecting Armenia's sovereignty and its people.

This woody comes aft the 2 countries person been astatine likelihood for decades implicit the Karabakh region.

"This pact is, it's conscionable a singular measurement successful the close direction. It is not the full solution itself. It's going to instrumentality clip to physique confidence, to physique trust, to physique unfastened communication," Berj K. Apkarian with the Honorary Counsel of Armenia said.

Trust is simply a interest for Armenia-American and Fresno State Professor Matthew Ari Jendian.

"I person questions astir the integrity of the statement due to the fact that I don't person a batch of spot for the, I would telephone him an authoritarian person of Azerbaijan," helium said.

The President of Azerbaijan has made claims connected onshore that helium says belongs to his country, but Jendian explains that doesn't beryllium good with the radical of Armenia.

Still, Jendian is hopeful present that President Trump has facilitated this agreement.

"He volition clasp things implicit people. And if helium feels if he's broke oregon the deal, and that president of Azerbaijan is agreeing and past goes backmost connected his word, I conscionable cognize however Donald Trump is, he's not gonna instrumentality that lightly he's gonna instrumentality that personally," Jendian said.

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