Azerbaijan, Armenia and the US launch trilateral technical planning groups on the TRIPP project

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Brendan Hanrahan, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov and Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan have launched the work of trilateral technical planning groups to advance the TRIPP project. The information was released on 7 November.

The technical planning groups will work in a trilateral format comprising representatives of three countries – Azerbaijan, Armenia and the United States. Their work is aimed at planning the technical issues for implementing the TRIPP project.

Earlier, the US side informed the Armenian leadership that bilateral working groups had been launched to advance the TRIPP project.

TRIPP is a transit route project that will link mainland Azerbaijan with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through Armenia's Syunik (Zangezur) region. The project was included in the joint declaration signed in Washington on 8 August 2025 by Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

At that meeting, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan, initialled the text of the peace agreement between the two countries. The declaration states that the route will be opened on the basis of respect for Armenia's sovereignty and jurisdiction.