YEREVAN. – The attempts of Baku to justify the fact of granting pardon to murderer Ramil Safarov based on Strasbourg Convention are baseless and as monstrous as issuing amnesty and releasing the murderer, who is sentenced for life in prison and honoring him, Armenian deputy FM Shavarsh Kocharyan told Armenpress.

“The scandalous action by the Azerbaijani authorities contradicts not only to the Convention’s humanitarian goals but also to the human rights of the European system,” Kocharyan said.

Ha also stated that Azerbaijan’s efforts to shadow the international norms and to adapt them to its own hostility, racist ‘value system’ are condemned to failure. They can only put in the same dimension the disgusting murderer and the Azerbaijani authorities, honoring him, he concluded.