YEREVAN. – EU respects Armenia’s sovereign right to join the Customs Union but does not accept any possible pressure on the country, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle said.

Füle said he was assured that no pressure had been exerted on Armenia.

“Who am I to question that?” he said in Yerevan on the margins of informal meeting of Eastern Partnership FMs.

At the same time, the EU offiical noted that such complaints were heard in the European Parliament.

He also recalled the statement of the EU delegation about violence against civic activists who expressed concern about the foreign policy of Armenia.

“We are calling upon the Armenian authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice,” he said.