Hungary must immediately demand from Azerbaijan to return Ramil Safarov, states Slovak National Council’s First Speaker František Mikloško’s statement, which is publicized by the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe Press Secretariat.
“Sadly, today’s Hungarian government decided to change justice with petrodollars and returned the criminal to Azerbaijan.
[Yet] I believe it is not yet too late for Hungary to at least partially correct its mistake and demand Safarov’s return by Azerbaijan and to return him to Hungarian prison.
The Armenian government severed its diplomatic ties with Hungary by stating that such actions will slow down and even stop the settlement of the [Nagorno-] Karabakh [peace] process.
Those who have been to Karabakh understand very well that it is suffice to insert Nagorno-Karabakh into Azerbaijan for just one day and its 160,000 citizens would be killed, and the rest of the European countries might turn a blind eye thanks to petrodollars.
Today it is necessary for Hungary to immediately demand from Azerbaijan to return Ramil Safarov because of not carrying out the arrangements, and the European states need to ultimately comprehend that the acceptance of Karabakh’s independence is the sole unique guarantee so that similar incidents will no longer repeat,” František Mikloško noted in his statement.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon.
And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
