US Vice President JD Vance signed a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Tuesday during a historic visit to the South Caucasus as Washington consolidates its engagement with Armenia and Azerbaijan following their historic peace deal after decades of conflict.
The strategic partnership focuses on economic, security, energy and technology cooperations in what Aliyev called “an absolutely new phase” between Azerbaijan and the US, while Vance said it is time “to 'create prosperity where once there was only fighting and conflict”.
