The Armenian community of Bucharest held a demonstration Thursday in front of the Hungarian Embassy in Romania, and protested Hungary’s extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan and his subsequent pardoning.    

The protesting delegation was received by Hungarian Ambassador to Romania, Oszkár  László Fuzes. 

The delegates handed to Ambassador Fuzes their official letter of protest. In his turn, the Hungarian diplomat expressed his deep regret and apologies, on behalf of his country’s government, for what transpired.

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.