YEREVAN. – Those in Azerbaijan are filled with so much hatred toward the Armenians that they have forgotten the ethical boundaries, reads the statement released by the office of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan.    

“Azerbaijani authorities’ actions do not cause a surprise. This is the injudicious manifestation of Armenian-hatred being cherished in that country since a long time. 

The decree on granting pardon to the murderer is the best proof for all the arguments toward the people of Karabakh having independence.   

Incidentally, if it turns out, from the Hungarian side’s response, that Azerbaijan has really deceived official Budapest and there was no criminal agreement, the Hungarians’ most worthy response could be the recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,” Robert Kocharyan’s office states.    

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.