2012 envisages Turkey’s return to Armenia-Turkey normalization process, political analyst, Regional Studies Center Director said. Richard Giragosian explained the aforesaid by more complicated nature of Turkey’s other foreign policy challenges.

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“Armenia has strengthened its positions in foreign policy, but much initiative is needed for maintaining these positions. Armenia’s positions became even stronger due to Azerbaijan’s mistakes,” Richard Giragosian, political analyst, director of the Yerevan-based Regional Studies Center (RSC), told a news conference in Yerevan. 

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“On the whole, compared with the previous year, Armenia has strengthened its positions in foreign policy, but much initiative is needed for maintaining these positions. Armenia’s positions became even stronger due to Azerbaijan’s mistakes,” said Richard Giragosian.

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Speaking about foreign policy results of 2012, Richard Giragosian mentioned end of the oligarchs’ era, successful reforms in the context of EU talks, parliamentary elections, characterizing them as “good, but not good enough”, poor socio-economic situation and unacceptable number of army incidents.

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“The PAP doesn’t have an adequate candidate, and the decision of Levon Ter-Petrossian, the first president, was a wise one. We don’t know whether there was a strategic plan for this decision,” Mr. Giragosian said. He is convinced that the decision of the PAP and the ANC reflects the problem of the Armenian political system.

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