YEREVAN. – During the economic forum being held in Krinitsa-Zdrowie, Poland, Armenian opposition MPs Hrant Bagratyan and Nikol Pashinyan made a statement with respect to Ramil Safarov’s extradition and subsequent release, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports. 

“[And] After presenting the situation to the forum’s 2,500 attendees, the MPs called upon everyone to express their thoughts in this regard,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.    

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.