YEREVAN.- Glorification of Ramil Safarov is beyond the European values, Germany’s Ambassador to Armenia Reiner Morell told reporters on Wednesday.

“Safarov’s case contradicts international standards,” he said expressing regret that the position of Germany and the EU did not focus on the fact that a gross violation of international law took place as “regional stability and peace is very important for us, and the EU first of all.”

He stressed that Germany realizes the importance of the issue. The reason for EU’s wordings lays in aspiration not to lead to further deterioration of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Ambassador stressed there may be an impression that the incident is not important for Germany but it is not so.

Reiner Morell noted that the incident will greatly damage the image of Azerbaijan and Baku’s further actions must be assessed taking into account the recent developments.

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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