YEREVAN.- Recent tension in Armenia-Hungary relations will not affect the flights to Budapest (transit through Vienna), Austrian Airlines representation in Armenia said in response to the written inquiry by Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Director of Armenian representation of the company Lukas Negedli said Austrian Airlines are conducting six Vienna-Yerevan-Vienna flights and three Vienna-Budapest-Vienna flights per week.

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.