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BAKU URGES BUDAPEST TO HAND OVER SAFAROV
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
posted April 17 2006
Baku, April 14, AssA-Irada
The Justice Ministry will file a motion with the Hungarian
ministry over handing over the Azerbaijani officer convicted to life
imprisonment after killing an Armenian serviceman during a NATO course
in Budapest, an official has said.
"No matter how serious the punishment may be, Hungary, a signatory to
the international convention on extradition, must ensure that Ramil
Safarov is sent back to Azerbaijan," the chief of the ministry's
department for international legal cooperation, Zavar Gafarov,
told journalists.
"The 1983 convention of the Council of Europe provides that a
convicted person must be allowed to serve his term in his home
country. Both Azerbaijan and Hungary have signed the convention. We
will take advantage of this provision of the convention and file such
a petition," he said.
Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
posted April 17 2006
Baku, April 14, AssA-Irada
The Justice Ministry will file a motion with the Hungarian
ministry over handing over the Azerbaijani officer convicted to life
imprisonment after killing an Armenian serviceman during a NATO course
in Budapest, an official has said.
"No matter how serious the punishment may be, Hungary, a signatory to
the international convention on extradition, must ensure that Ramil
Safarov is sent back to Azerbaijan," the chief of the ministry's
department for international legal cooperation, Zavar Gafarov,
told journalists.
"The 1983 convention of the Council of Europe provides that a
convicted person must be allowed to serve his term in his home
country. Both Azerbaijan and Hungary have signed the convention. We
will take advantage of this provision of the convention and file such
a petition," he said.