Maintaining the dialogue with Armenia, the U.S. and EU should not forget that it is Russia's periphery, Sabine Freizer, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, told ArmInfo.
"In this respect, it is already a positive fact that Brussels and Yerevan continue negotiating for a document that will replace the Association Agreement. EU should continue assisting Armenia in building sustainable institutions based on the supremacy of the law and responsibility of citizens," the analyst said.
At the same time, Freizer believes that Brussels should make its conditions extremely clear and not to refrain from open criticism at Yerevan after seeing "the reforms carried out." Freizer is sure that for Armenia the best way to create a space for its own decisions independent from Russia is to create legitimate and representative local institutions.
As for the security issues, Sabine Freizer said the bilateral Armenian-Russian guarantees and Azerbaijan's security treaties with Turkey are much stronger than anything the OSCE can offer. The analyst is sure that the CSTO has no practice of conflict management or any clear vision of how to respond to a resumption of military actions in the Karabakh conflict zone.
Experts, analysts and politicians give interviews to Armenian media within the framework of the "Region" Research Center's project "Topical Dialogues on Armenia's New Integration Agenda."