ARF Eastern Region condemns August 8 agreements as historic betrayal

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Eastern Region forcefully condemns the August 8 agreements signed at the White House by Ilham Aliyev, Nikol Pashinyan and Donald Trump. These documents represent a coordinated act of betrayal that dismantles Armenia’s sovereignty, erases Artsakh from the international agenda and fractures the Armenian homeland.

Three documents were signed: withdrawal from the OSCE Minsk Group, creation of the so-called Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) through Armenia’s sovereign Syunik province and a framework peace agreement codifying the March 2025 17-point arrangement between Pashinyan and Aliyev—an arrangement never presented to, let alone ratified by, the Armenian people.

That March deal read like an enemy’s wish list:

• Constitutional changes to erase all references to Artsakh and abandon any moral or legal claim to its defense
• Dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group
• Ban on third party border monitors, removing deterrents to Azerbaijani aggression
• Withdrawal of Armenia’s international legal cases, erasing accountability for war crimes and the 2023 genocide against Artsakh
• Commitments to “open communications” that pave the way for the so-called Zangezur Corridor: no matter the name, it is a calculated loss of sovereignty
• Agreement to allow 300,000 Azerbaijanis to “return” to Armenia under Aliyev’s irredentist “Western Azerbaijan” plan