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YEREVAN, Armenia — <\/span>Vice President JD Vance<\/a> landed in Armenia on Monday \u2014 a country that no sitting U.S. vice president or president has visited before \u2014 as the Trump administration looks to advance a U.S.-brokered deal<\/a> aimed at ending a decades-long conflict with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n The vice president and his wife, Usha, were greeted with a red carpet, an honor guard and a delegation of officials. Armenian and American flags hung from poles from as the delegation drove to the vice president’s meeting, with some demonstrators on the side of the road, including one with a sign that said, \u201cDoes Trump support Devils?”<\/p>\n Vance is meeting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who signed a deal at the White House in August intended to reopen key transportation routes with Azerbaijan. At that meeting, the countries signed agreements reaffirming their commitment to signing a peace treaty. The text of the treaty was initialed by foreign ministers, which indicates preliminary approval. But the leaders have yet to sign the treaty and parliaments have yet to ratify it.<\/p>\n Vance arrived in Yerevan after spending four days in Milan<\/a> at the Winter Olympics with his family, and plans to travel to Azerbaijan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are both on President Donald Trump’s new Board of Peace<\/a>. The group was originally envisioned to oversee the Gaza ceasefire plan<\/a>, but has since expanded in size and ambition. Trump plans to convene the first meeting of the board<\/a> in Washington this month.<\/p>\n The deal with the two former Soviet republics calls for the creation of a major transit corridor dubbed the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. It is expected to connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 32-kilometer-wide (20-mile-wide) patch of Armenian territory.<\/p>\n