PARIS. – French MP Francois Rochebloine expressed regret that the visit of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Paris was not postponed in the context of recent developments on Ramil Safarov’s case.

Rochebloine stated that Aliyev’s visit will not be welcomed as only some days have passed since he granted a pardon to Safarov who killed the Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan.

The Safarov’s case brought forth indignation of Armenia and all the democratic countries, the French MP claimed, adding the Azeri authorities’ provocative attitude generates climate of mistrust and concern in the South Caucasus.

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. And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.