YEREVAN. – Armenian authorities must first of all present the test of Association Agreement with EU to the public and hold a nationwide referendum on the issue, head of Marxist party said.

Davit Hakobyan,leader of Armenian Marxist party, is confident that the Agreement must be signed only after holding a referendum.

“The nationwide referendum will show which part of the society stands for the EU and which for the USSR,” Hakobyan said during the Tuesday press conference.

 The Association Agreement contains no point on either settlement of the Karabakh conflict, or ensuring Armenia’s security.

“The Agreement is called to develop trade, but the European market is not waiting for Armenia. As to the Eurasian Union, the matter is creation of a new geopolitical center,” he said, noting that the Eurasian Union must create a balance in the context of current pan-American hegemony.