Azeri murderer release threatens to end the peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan and unleash bloody conflict.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan carried out a sustained lobbying effort to extradite Safarov from Hungary, over the protests of Armenian officials. The Hungarian government, under pressure to explain its decision to turn over Safarov, has said it received written assurance from Azerbaijan that he would not be paroled until he had served 25 years in prison for murdering Armenian Gurgen Margaryan.

It is not clear how the Armenian government will respond to the release.

“We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win,” Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan said on Sept. 3.

Armenian opposition proposed formally recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh’s independent, which may signal the final collapse of peace talks. At the same time, Armenia could make complicated the confrontation by opening the Stepanakert airport.

“Giving so much support to a hero, a person who killed an Armenian, makes the president a hero, too,” Azerbaijani opposition politician Zerdusht Alizadeh said on this regard.