Shusha, Azerbaijan— During the 4th Annual Shusha Global Media Forum, where several hundred media outlets around the world were invited to attend, including The Floridian, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev praised President Donald Trump and his administration over their efforts to broker peace between his country and the country of Armenia.
Breitbart News senior investigative reporter Joshua Klein asked President Aliyev to explain what President Trump did differently than previous administrations, particularly the Biden administration, to help bring peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
President Aliyev, who moments early stated that Azerbaijan and he both had an “excellent” relationship with the Trump administration, said that,” there was a big difference from what President Trump was doing and is doing and his predecessors.”
Aliyev said that years of inaction by Biden and other previous administration made the Armenian “occupation” of Azerbaijan territories appear “endless.”
“President Trump's approach was quite different. He is a person who loves peace. A person who brings peace to many destinations as he himself tells he brought peace to eight conflicts and uh this is his character this is his uh vision and um his policy. So in our case his role was very important,” said Aliyev.
Aliyev continued, adding that Trump played a major role during the “final stage of negotiations on a peace agreement.”
President Trump and his team they stepped in and uh they created such a framework that peace became possible,” he said. “They totally uh understood our concerns with respect to peace.”=
Aliyev went on to talk about the “historic meeting in the White House” when he, Trump, and the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan where the peace agreement was made.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian told The Floridian that, "the President brings something to foreign policy that the previous administration does not bring, and that is simply this: His yes is yes, and his no is no. And leaders around the globe, they know that; they recognize that, and all of the foreign intelligence agencies advise their leaders that they can try President Trump, but they are absolutely rolling the dice."
During the Clinton presidency, and when former President Joe Biden served in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, Congress passed the United States Freedom Support Act, which included Section 907 to ban any form of direct U.S. aid to Azerbaijan.
The ban stood for years until August 2025, when Trump struck down Section 907.
