Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used his Thursday address at the United Nations General Assembly to celebrate his nation’s military victory over Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh and to praise President Donald Trump for brokering a peace deal between the two long-feuding neighbors.
A historic Trump peace accord has ended more than 30 years of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, giving the United States an unprecedented foothold in the South Caucasus.
