YEREVAN. – The international community’s approach toward the Hungarian-Azerbaijani arrangement was unanimous and united, Armenia’s FM Edward Nalbandian said Tuesday during his joint news conference with Luxembourg’s Deputy PM and FM Jean Asselborn.  

In response to the query as to how Armenia evaluates such attitude by European organizations, Nalbandian stated:

“There is no international organization that did not express its negative attitude toward this deal. The European Union not only made that statement, but, also, other statements were made by the European Union-member countries.   

I have received dozens of telephone calls in the recent days from the FMs of a variety of countries, who have expressed their unequivocal attitude toward this Azerbaijani-Hungarian deal. There is no country today that could express its support to what transpired. There is no country that expresses its support to Azerbaijan,” Armenia’s FM noted.   

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.    

Ramil Safarov’s pardoning is condemned by virtually all international organizations.