Hungary had not only acted in good faith when it repatriated the Azeri convicted for murdering an Armenian, but it did so according to European legal and civilized norms, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the country’s public radio in an interview broadcast on Friday.
In Orbán’s words, the events surrounding the current dispute between
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“If we get a written statement, we will fulfill the request,” Hungarian PM said.
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
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Also, Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on September 2 met in Budapest with Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Hungary, Vilayat Guliyev, and handed him a protest letter which stated that Azerbaijan’s is unacceptable.