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MP Armen Gevorgyan from Armenia’s main opposition Hayastan faction believes the Armenian agenda should focus on the future.

"I consider the Armenian agenda as something about a tendency towards the future, movement, dynamics," he told a panel discussion held in Yerevan’s Congress Hotel on Tuesday.

Armen Gevorgyan noted with regret that when talking about the Armenian agenda, “we constantly focused on existing problems and could not go beyond that and look forward.”

"Of course, it is also objective in the post-war period. But constantly lingering on problems, waiting for external signals or changes lead you to nowhere; you are constantly in a state of reflection," he said.

The Armenian agenda, according to the MP, has three dimensions: the first is the intra-Armenian plane, where complicated political and moral-psychological processes take place; the second is the pan-Armenian plane, where the problems are not limited to Armenia and cover the Diaspora; the third is the geopolitical plane, where Armenia is in the epicenter of processes beyond its control.

"Thus, the Armenian-Turkish normalization process comprises all three dimensions," he said, stressing the need to consider those issues as priorities.

"But we should realize that these priorities are not connected with the expectations of a significant part of our society. It's very difficult to talk about plans for the future, when today many people are struggling to earn their daily bread," Gevorgyan said.