Armenia and Azerbaijan have formally nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, marking a rare joint initiative by the South Caucasus rivals after decades of conflict. The move follows a U.S.-brokered peace accord that the two nations signed at the White House on 13 March 2025, ending hostilities over Nagorno-Karabakh. The Caucasus governments join Israel, Rwanda, Gabon, Cambodia, Thailand and Pakistan, bringing to eight the number of states that say they have filed or pledged nominations backing Trump’s candidacy. Nominations for the 2025 prize closed at the end of January, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee traditionally neither confirms nor denies who has been put forward. Central to the peace accord is the proposed Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), a 43-kilometre multimodal corridor that would link Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through southern Armenia. Washington has suggested leasing and managing the corridor for 100 years. Analysts estimate construction would cost US$3-5 billion and could generate annual logistics savings of US$20-30 billion by shortening trade routes between Europe and Asia. Trump’s Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff, has been lobbying publicly for the Nobel bid, telling Fox News this week that the president is “the finest candidate ever considered” for the award. French broadcasters have questioned unverified claims that the nomination was rejected, but no official word has come from Oslo. The Nobel Committee is expected to publish its shortlist in the spring, with the laureate to be announced in October.