YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Diaspora Ministry called upon the Armenians all over the world to commence demonstrations in connection with Hungary’s extradition of the Azerbaijani murderer.
“The time has come to come together as a nation because machinations were weaved yet again and alongside Armenia and the Armenian people, and the Azerbaijani janissary, who barbarically axed Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan to death in Hungary was released.
With this move, Hungary proved that the Hungarian authorities today are not worthy of being named a member of the European family. And all this is transpiring at the heart of Europe.
And Azerbaijan’s president carried out his next unlawful deed and granted freedom to the criminal.
We are confident that the Diaspora-Armenian communities together will raise their voice of protest, organize mass protests in front of the Hungarian diplomatic representations in the given country, and demand from the authorities and parliaments of the countries they reside in to: a) have an effect on Azerbaijan, b) condemn the actions of Hungarian authorities, [and] c) discuss Azerbaijan’s future membership at the Council of Europe.
[Also] To call upon the worthy children of the Hungarian people to express disagreement with the decision of their authorities and to condemn it,” the Diaspora Ministry’s respective statement reads in particular.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on Friday 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.
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 Friday that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
