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The EU has failed to use either the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) or the Eastern Partnership (EaP) to leverage reform in Armenia. Armenia saw its inclusion in the EaP as a path to gaining EU membership and a way of resolving ongoing problems with its neighbors. However the EU is still neither actively involved in conflict resolution nor strongly committed to closer political integration with its Eastern partners. Its vague policy stipulations have done little to shore up its own position in the South Caucasus.