YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian met, on Wednesday in New York, with Philip Gordon, the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and they discussed the future development of Armenian-American partnership. 

Also, Nalbandian and Gordon thoroughly spoke about the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process, and the situation ensuing Ramil Safarov’s release as a result of the Hungarian-Azerbaijani arrangement, MFA press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.       

In this connection, the Armenian FM underscored the international community’s specifically addressed and unanimously condemning response.

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.