Opinion | Armenia’s U-turn back to ‘multi-vector foreign policy’

The first U-turn The statement from the President of Armenian in September 2013 sounded like a bolt from the blue. He would not sign the Association Agreement with the European Union at the planned November Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, he said. Instead, Armenia would be joining the Russian led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). This signified Armenia’s departure from a multi-vector foreign policy. At that point, Armenia had been in talks with the EU for four years. Such a sharp ch