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HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUALS ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
TERT.AM
09.10.12
Four Hungarian intellectuals have arrived in Armenia to express
their disagreement with the transfer of Azeri officer Ramil Safarov
to Azerbaijan.
What happened only concerns the Hungarian government. Most of Hungarian
citizens condemned the government's step, Zoltan Biro, a historian,
political analyst and expert in Russia and post-Soviet states, told
journalists in Yerevan on Tuesday.
According to him, Hungarian society, including opposition political
forces, voiced their negative opinion immediately after Ramil Safarov
was transferred.
Gabor Ivanyi, President of the Budapest Wesley Janos Church
College, said that it is the Hungarian premier that bears the whole
responsibility. Also, murdering the Armenian officer who was asleep
can by no means be justified, he added.
The Hungarian court's verdict highlighted that fact, and Safarov was
sentenced to life imprisonment. "We have arrived here only to state our
disagreement with that decision and, on behalf of the entire Hungarian
people, tell you we feel deep regret over the whole matter," he said.
Mr Ivanyi also noted that Hungary has not so far recognized the
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
The lecturer and journalist Gabor Deak believes Ramil Safarov's
transfer to Azerbaijan is nothing but a political step, which was
condemned by Hungarian society.
Rudolf Ungvary, a mechanical engineer and art critic, said that the
Hungarian government must apologize to the Armenian people and resolve
the diplomatic crisis it caused by its own actions.
Gabor Ivanyi, in turn, proposes that the Hungarian government allocate
the money it was to spend on Ramil Safarov during his 30-year-long
imprisonment to the Armenian church of the 17th century, which has
lost its historical status.
The Hungarian intellectuals intend to visit Guregn Margaryan's tomb
to pay respects to the Armenian officer. They also plan to plant a
tree path of the Institute-Museum of the Armenian Genocide.
TERT.AM
09.10.12
Four Hungarian intellectuals have arrived in Armenia to express
their disagreement with the transfer of Azeri officer Ramil Safarov
to Azerbaijan.
What happened only concerns the Hungarian government. Most of Hungarian
citizens condemned the government's step, Zoltan Biro, a historian,
political analyst and expert in Russia and post-Soviet states, told
journalists in Yerevan on Tuesday.
According to him, Hungarian society, including opposition political
forces, voiced their negative opinion immediately after Ramil Safarov
was transferred.
Gabor Ivanyi, President of the Budapest Wesley Janos Church
College, said that it is the Hungarian premier that bears the whole
responsibility. Also, murdering the Armenian officer who was asleep
can by no means be justified, he added.
The Hungarian court's verdict highlighted that fact, and Safarov was
sentenced to life imprisonment. "We have arrived here only to state our
disagreement with that decision and, on behalf of the entire Hungarian
people, tell you we feel deep regret over the whole matter," he said.
Mr Ivanyi also noted that Hungary has not so far recognized the
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
The lecturer and journalist Gabor Deak believes Ramil Safarov's
transfer to Azerbaijan is nothing but a political step, which was
condemned by Hungarian society.
Rudolf Ungvary, a mechanical engineer and art critic, said that the
Hungarian government must apologize to the Armenian people and resolve
the diplomatic crisis it caused by its own actions.
Gabor Ivanyi, in turn, proposes that the Hungarian government allocate
the money it was to spend on Ramil Safarov during his 30-year-long
imprisonment to the Armenian church of the 17th century, which has
lost its historical status.
The Hungarian intellectuals intend to visit Guregn Margaryan's tomb
to pay respects to the Armenian officer. They also plan to plant a
tree path of the Institute-Museum of the Armenian Genocide.