Albania\u2019s Edi Rama has mocked the US president for mixing up Albania and Armenia<\/p>\n
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has taken a jab at US President Donald Trump after the latter claimed to have settled the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan \u2013 confusing the Balkan country with Armenia in the South Caucasus.
\nFootage shared on social media shows Rama walking up to French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with a tongue-in-cheek remark at a summit in Denmark on Thursday.
\n\u201cYou should make an apology to us because you didn\u2019t congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan,\u201d Rami is heard telling Macron.<\/p>\n
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other. pic.twitter.com\/5lP6XTps2J\u2014 Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 2, 2025 <\/p>\n
\u201cI am sorry for that,\u201d Macron is heard replying, with all three leaders laughing. The quip referred to Trump\u2019s state visit to the UK two weeks earlier, where he cited the \u201csettlement of Aber-baijan (sic) and Albania\u201d as an example of his peacemaking record, mispronouncing Azerbaijan while confusing Albania with Armenia.<\/p>\n
Trump: We settled Aber-baijan and Albania…He’s referring to Azerbaijan and Armenia. Can we 25th him already? pic.twitter.com\/mkT28a06zt\u2014 Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) September 18, 2025 <\/p>\n
Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet republics, were locked in conflict for decades over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh before Azerbaijan retook it in 2023. In August, the leaders of the two countries initialed a US-brokered peace declaration, renouncing territorial claims and pledging to abstain from the use of force, though the agreement has yet to come into effect. France has urged both sides to finalize the treaty, with Macron casting the deal as vital for European security.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Trump\u2019s latest slip added to a long record of geographical blunders. He has called Belgium a \u201cbeautiful city,\u201d invented the country of \u201cNambia\u201d at a UN luncheon, confused the Baltics with the Balkans, and once hailed \u201cthe Prince of Whales.\u201d Other US presidents have also stumbled \u2013 George W. Bush famously praised Australia\u2019s leader for visiting \u201cAustrian troops\u201d in Iraq, while Joe Biden mixed up Syria with Libya and Colombia with Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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