Overview

• Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama quipped to Emmanuel Macron at the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen about Trump confusing Armenia with Albania.
• Rama, speaking in the presence of Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, joked that Macron should congratulate Albania and Azerbaijan on a peace deal, according to Azerbaijani agency APA.
• RIA Novosti says its video shows Macron apologizing and lightly patting Rama on the cheek after the remark.
• Trump said in a September Fox News interview that he had ended a war between Azerbaijan and Albania, a misstatement widely noted at the time.
• The anecdote comes against the backdrop of an August declaration in Washington on a parafed Armenia–Azerbaijan peace text and discussions of a proposed transit "Trump Route" via Armenia to Nakhchivan.