Vance in Azerbaijan to Advance US-Brokered Peace Talks Post Armenia Visit

• US Vice President JD Vance arrived in Azerbaijan after visiting Armenia to consolidate a US-brokered peace process between the Caucasus neighbors.
• The visit follows US President Donald Trump's mediation last year of a peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan, which fought two wars over the Karabakh region.
• Vance will meet Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, after holding talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan.
• The visit aims to advance a flagship transport communications project, the 'Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP)', integrating the two countries into a new east-west trade route.
• Vance stated that the issue of Armenian separatist leaders imprisoned in Azerbaijan would be discussed, following their lengthy sentences in a war crimes trial.