YEREVAN. – Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev will arrive in France on September 18. And, in this connection, a mass demonstration will be held in front of Azerbaijan’s embassy in Paris. 

Not accepting the reality of the arrangement reached between Azerbaijan and Hungary, Armenians across the globe continue to hold events that express their dissatisfaction and disagreement, Armenia’s Diaspora Ministry press service informs. 

But residents from Lyon, Marseille and other French cities likewise will join this protest being organized at the initiative of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF).

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.