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YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met, on Thursday in New York, with Eamon Gilmore, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

They discussed the damage which the Azerbaijani-Hungarian arrangement has caused to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement process. In this connection, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office highly appreciated Armenia’s commitment to resolve the matter by way of negotiations, MFA Press Service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.     

Nalbandian and Gilmore also reflected on the OSCE’s agenda issues, and, in this regard, Armenia’s FM expressed a support to the Irish chairmanship’s initiatives to raise the Organization’s effectiveness. 

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.

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