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IWPR CITES RSC IN CRICITISM OF ARMENIA’S EMBRACE OF RUSSIA’S CUSTOM UNION

IWPR CITES RSC IN CRICITISM OF ARMENIA’S EMBRACE OF RUSSIA’S CUSTOM UNION

In her analysis for the Institute for War and Peace reporting (IWPR) on September 13, Arpi Harutyunyan quoted RSC Director Richard Giragosian in assessing the decision by the Armenian president committing Armenia to join the Customs Union, thereby ending nearly four years of negotiations with the European Union over an Association Agreement for the country.  Her article noted that “in Armenia, few analysts saw Customs Union membership as unambiguously good news.  ‘This was a strategic mistake, an important opportunity that has been lost,’ Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Centre in Yerevan said. ‘A major foreign policy error has been committed that places the entire future of reforms in doubt.’ Giragosian believes that the door to the EU is now “closed but not locked.”

http://iwpr.net/report-news/after-eu-talks-armenia-swings-back-moscow

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