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YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: Armenia should learn lessons from the history and not put trust in the external forces. This was stated by the Director of the Regional Studies Center, the political analyst Richard Giragosyan at the seminar “EU association agreement. Security Challenges and Opportunities” held on June 13. “We should never put our trust in USA, Russia or the West. In the first place we should put trust in ourselves”, - said the Director of the Regional Studies Center, as reported by Armenpress.
The political analyst believes that the history has showed that in different times, putting the hope on the external forces, Armenia has always suffered and had big losses.
Richard Giragosyan stated that in the issue of the signing of the Association Agreement, the summit, to be held in Vilnius, is the easiest stage, adding that a bigger issue is the next day of the summit, when Armenia will take the responsibility to implement the requirements of the EU Association Agreement. The Director of the Regional Studies Center and the political analyst Richard Giragosyan noted that in that case Armenia will not have any alternative and should make considerable reforms.
The discussions over the Armenia-EU Association Agreement were launched since July 19 2010 in Yerevan.