Video has surfaced of a recent meeting between European leaders during which they joked about President Donald Trump’s verbal slip when discussing peace deals he’d brokered, naming one between Albania and Azerbaijan – a war that never happened.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama jokingly scolds his colleague French President Emmanuel Macron that he didn’t congratulate Albania and Azerbaijan for brokering a peace deal thanks to the U.S. president, saying the countries worked “very hard” to achieve the deal.
“You should make an apology to us because you didn’t congratulate us for the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,” Rama said while Macron and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev laugh.
Trump had brokered a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan in August, one of several he has touted in recent months as proof of his international politics muscle and skill. He also worked out a deal between Cambodia and Thailand following a border clash between the two nations, although renewed clashes this week threaten that deal.
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