YEREVAN. Armenia’s Justice Ministry still refrains from declaring details on the ‘Safarov’s case’, the case of Azerbaijani murderer who killed Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan.

“A working group has been established. No other details are available not for public yet,” the Ministry spokesperson Karine Kalantaryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

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 he was declared a national hero.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also, Sargsyan had instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to apply to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect to the Safarov case.