14. Regrets the fact that after more than three years of successfully completed negotiations on an Association Agreement, including a DCFTA, the Armenian authorities decided instead to join the Customs Union, following Russian pressure; reminds the Armenian authorities that the protests and demonstrations against this decision are an expression of the free will of the country’s citizens and that they need to be respected under the international commitments into which Armenia has entered; recalls, in this connection, that persecution and detentions are violations of the rights of assembly and expression and that repressive measures run ...[+++]counter to recent rhetoric of commitment to shared values with the EU; calls on the Government of Armenia to engage in an inclusive dialogue with civil society on the country’s future direction;

13. Regrets the fact that after more than three years of successfully completed negotiations on an Association Agreement, including a DCFTA, the Armenian authorities decided instead to join the Customs Union, following Russian pressure; reminds the Armenian authorities that the protests and demonstrations against this decision are an expression of the free will of the country’s citizens and that they need to be respected under the international commitments into which Armenia has entered; recalls, in this connection, that persecution and detentions are violations of the rights of assembly and expression and that repressive measures run ...[+++]counter to recent rhetoric of commitment to shared values with the EU; calls on the Government of Armenia to engage in an inclusive dialogue with civil society on the country’s future direction;

13. Regrets the fact that after more than three years of successfully completed AA/DCFTA negotiations, the Armenian authorities decided instead to join the Customs Union, following Russian pressure; reminds the Armenian authorities that the protests and demonstrations against this decision are an expression of the free will of the country’s citizens and that they need to be respected under the international commitments into which Armenia has entered; recalls, in this connection, that persecution and detentions are violations of the basic rights of assembly and expression and that repressive measures run counter to recent rhetoric of commitment to shared values with the EU; calls on the Government of Armenia to ...[+++]engage in an inclusive dialogue with civil society on the country’s future direction;

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29. Notes that the Commission, in the light of the experiences with the breach of the ban on exports from the United Kingdom in the implementation of Directive 662/89, has still not submitted a proposal to the Council and the European Parliament for improvements to the monitoring system, which links checks in the country of origin with spot checks and physical checks at the frontiers and improved information to the authorities in the country of destination; draws attention, however, to the agreement by the President of the Commission, Mr Santer who has announced the submission of proposals on the monitoring system by February 1998 at th ...[+++]e latest;