Day: January 15, 2026

After years of rhetoric, red lines, and stalled negotiations, movement in the South Caucasus is now coming from an unlikely source: process. Armenia’s decision to publish the implementation framework of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity—TRIPP (Zangazur Corridor), is less dramatic than it first appears, but more consequential than its legal modesty suggests. Officially, the document creates no binding obligations. Politically, however, it marks another incremental step in a process that has been quietly gaining momentum since the August 8 Washington meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.