The Rocky Road to an EU-Armenia Agreement: From U-turn to detour. CEPS Commentary, 3 February 2015

The EU was taken by surprise when the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, stood by his Russian counterpart and announced Armenia’s plans to join the Russian-led Customs Union in September 2013. After all, before this announcement Armenia and the EU had successfully concluded negotiations on their Association Agreement. Armenia is still suffering the consequences of the Kremlin’s coercion to reject this Association Agreement. Indeed, as Armenians around the world commemorate the centenary of the Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, the Republic of Armenia is facing mounting challenges. The country remains subject to an economic blockade by Turkey and is in conflict with Azerbaijan. Ever since President’s Sargsyan’s astonishing volte-face, the EU and Armenia are still in the process of trying to rework the failed agreement. The author of this commentary argues that because the future of any new agreement is uncertain, negotiations should be accompanied by a pragmatic EU-Armenia roadmap. This roadmap, alongside the start of the visa liberalisation process and Armenia’s signing up to the European Common Aviation Agreement and Horizon 2020, could become a deliverable at the Riga Summit on 26-27 April 2015.

From apathy to nationalist mobilisation: politics makes a comeback in Armenia. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 215 | 08.06.2016

In the military dimension, the Four-Day War in Nagorno-Karabakh (2–5 April 2016) changed little in the conflict zone. It has, however, had a significant impact on the situation in Armenia. The country was shocked out of the political malaise that had been the dominant mood in the last few years, and the Karabakh question, which used to animate political life in the late 1980s and early 1990s, once again became a driving force behind developments. In the internal dimension, the renewed fighting galvanised the political scene, triggered a rise in nationalist sentiments, mobilised the public and consolidated it around the Karabakh question, overshadowing the frustrations caused by the country’s difficult economic situation. In the external dimension, the war, which was viewed as Moscow-endorsed Azerbaijani aggression, undermined people’s trust in Russia and the Armenian-Russian alliance. It also made it clear for Armenians how uncertain the Russian security guarantees were and exacerbated their feelings of vulnerability and isolation on the international stage.

Haykʻ-hEghisabetʻupolis Dransiluanioy : ays gaghtʻakanutʻean patmutʻiwně kʻaghuats Dransiluanio ishkhanatsʻ ew Awstrioy kayseratsʻ aṛandznashnorhutʻeantsʻ kondaknerēn, zhamanakakitsʻ ardzanagrutʻiwnnerēn ew pashtōnakan grutʻiwnnerēn /

Includes bibliographical references.

Hayastan : ashkharhagrakan, patmakan, tsʻeghagrakan, vichakagrakan ew mshakutʻayin tesakētnerov /

Folded map included.

Hayerě Nikomidoy gawaṛin mēj : usumnasirutʻiwn vichakagrakan tsʻutsʻaknerov ew kʻartēsov /

Errata slip inserted.

Drōshin tak : grakan uruagitsner /

A. Anonkʻ or inkan - -B. Anonkʻ or kěmnan.

Zhamanakakitsʻ patmutʻean sewagoyn ējě : 1915i haykakan dēpkʻer : iroghutʻiwnner ew pataskhanatuutʻiwnner /

Includes bibliographical references.

Turkey in Europe,

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

Amēnun taretsʻuytsʻě : zbōsali u pitani.

Published: Paris : H.B. Tiwrapean, 1924; Vienna : Mkhitʻarean Tparan, 1925; Venice : Tp. Mkhitʻarean, 1926; Pʻariz : Tparan "Masis", 1927-1929.

Malatʻioy teghagrakan ew azgagrakan ashkhatasirutʻiwně, ew, Grigor Khandzeani Malatʻioy gawaṛabarbaṛě /

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Kamenitsʻ : taregirkʻ Hayotsʻ Lehastani ew Ṛumenioy, hawastchʻeay haweluatsovkʻ /

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Kʻaṛamseay teghekagir Kesarioy, Ēvērēki ew shrjakayitsʻ karōtelotsʻ handznakhʻumbi.

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Grace illustrated, or, A bouquet from our missionary garden /

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Letters on Turkey: an account of the religious, political, social, and commercial conditions of the Ottoman empire;

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Les plaies du Caucase

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