STRASBOURG. – The world community should assess Azerbaijan and its degenerate society, Armenian delegation member to Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Naira Zohrabyan said during hearings on the case of Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov, who had murdered an Armenian officer with an axe in his sleep in Bucharest, and later was extradited to Baku, granted a pardon and made a hero, Armenian News-NEWS.am reports.

“We should asked to ourselves whether a country where Safarov is a hero should be PACE member,” Zohrabyan said adding after the Azeri killer Safarov’s case everybody realized that Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] cannot be a part of Azerbaijan, where a cruel murder [of Armenian] on ethnic grounds is heroism.

Head of the French delegation to PACE René Rouquet stressed that Azerbaijan’s actions on pardoning a killer is ‘disrespectful for human life.’ Bulgarian MP Latchezar Toshev emphasized that justification of a killer [Safarov] by Azerbaijan is inadmissible and by this Azerbaijan broke all hopes that reconciliation of the sides [regarding the Karabakh settlement] is possible.