At their Dublin meeting, the leaders welcomed groups to manage rivers shared by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia’s government said 105,000 metric tonnes of cargo had reached Armenia through Azerbaijan since November 2025.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev welcomed the creation of working groups on managing rivers that cross their countries' borders, Armenia’s government said after their meeting in Dublin on 12 November. The leaders also emphasized cooperation on the environment and shared water resources.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988, when ethnic Armenians demanded the region’s transfer to Armenia. Azerbaijan regained control of the disputed territory and surrounding regions in 2020 and 2023.
The meeting took place during the ninth European Political Community summit. The government said the talks built on the 8 August 2025 Washington peace summit and the joint declaration signed there. At that summit, the leaders also initialed a peace agreement whose signing and final ratification remained the subject of further efforts.
The government described goods transit through Azerbaijan both to and from Armenia as a positive development. The government said 105,000 metric tonnes of cargo had been transported to Armenia through Azerbaijan since November 2025; that total does not cover traffic in both directions.
The leaders discussed practical steps to strengthen peace, including transport and transit links, trade, border delimitation and confidence-building measures, the government said. They also exchanged views on a prospective connection between the countries' electricity grids.
Their discussion also covered planning and design of the railway and road components of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, or TRIPP, and prospects for transit along it. The government described those as matters under discussion, rather than completed links.
President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed the ratification law on 10 November, completing the presidential legislative step for the Armenia–US strategic cooperation framework.
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The three countries launched the first two planning groups, for transportation and electricity transmission, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said in a joint statement on 7 November 2026. The groups bring officials and technical experts together to work on the proposed transit route.
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says the government will commission railway, highway and power-line designs before a planned development company is established. Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan considers a special border-delimitation round likely, but says Armenia and Azerbaijan have not agreed on it.
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