YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian on Tuesday paid a visit to Yerevan State University (YSU) and delivered the new education year’s first lecture at the Faculty of International Relations.

Nalbandian presented Armenia’s outlook on several key regional and international issues. 

Reflecting on the Azerbaijani murderer’s release as a result of a Hungarian-Azerbaijani arrangement, FM specifically said:

“Azerbaijan was working intensively to relocate the criminal, and the Hungarian authorities were categorically rejecting all these attempts. What happened that Hungary’s current government suddenly believed in the Azerbaijan’s lies?    

Ever since Safarov’s crime, Azerbaijan was persistently glorifying this horrendous crime and making a hero out of the murderer. Now, how can Hungary pretend to have believed in the false Azerbaijani promises and taken that suspicious step?  

Azerbaijan’s authorities are attempting to bring to the level of interstate relations the corruption that is deeply entrenched in their country.

Knowing about Azerbaijan’s attempts, Armenia continually invited the Hungarian authorities’ attention to the impermissibility of extraditing the criminal, and received unequivocal assurances that such move was ruled out.   

This shameful move by Azerbaijan’s leadership has shocked the international community. But the responses coming from Azerbaijan in the most recent days cause no lesser shock. In actual fact, Azerbaijan expresses its cynical disregard toward the international community.”