YEREVAN. – Armenia neither lost nor gained anything by not signing the EU Association Agreement. 

Caucasus Institute Director and political scientist Alexander Iskandaryan noted the aforesaid at a press conference on Thursday.

Iskandaryan commented on the EU Eastern Partnership Summit that kicked off Thursday in Lithuania’s capital city Vilnius. 

“Armenia was preparing to make a move within the framework of the policy of complementarity, which has become its standard: [that is,] ‘we [i.e., Armenia] will remain in this format but also gain the other [format].’ But the ‘other’ could not be gained,” the analyst noted.     

In his words, Armenia has already signed the agreement on EU visa facilitation and readmission, and therefore it is quite realistic that the next round of talks will begin and the final phase of these talks will be the lifting of visas between Armenia and the EU.

“Europe, too, has lost nothing. This was a project, within the framework of which was raised the form of Europe’s cooperation with the four countries [namely, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia]. [But] as of today, this will reflect [solely] on two countries: Moldova and Georgia,” Alexander Iskandaryan stressed.