President Aleksandar Veljić of the The Holocaust Memorial Society of Serbia issued a statement with respect to Armenia’s suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary, and expressed a support to Armenia’s such move. 

“The Holocaust Memorial Society agrees with that step by Armenia because Hungarian policy is full of hypocrisy and secret plans against the integrity and security of various European countries.   

Hungary is known for the facts of deviating from international justice. [Adolf] Hitler’s closest ally Miklós Horthy’s fate is the best proof of this fact,” Aleksandar Veljić’s statement reads in particular.      

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.