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Armenian Deputy FM Comments on Azerbaijani Behavior
20:40, 1 September, 2012
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: Armenpress asked Deputy foreign
Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan to comment on the attempts of
official Baku to justify the pardon of Ramil Safarov, who killed the
Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe, while he was asleep, in
Budapest according to the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer
of Sentenced Persons. `The attempts of Baku to justify the granted
pardon to Ramil Safarov according to the provisions of Strasburg
Convention are as groundless and horrific as are the setting free and
honoring of the life imprisoned slaughterer. This alarming act of the
authorities of Azerbaijan not only contradicts to the humanistic
purposes of the Convention, but also to the spirit of the whole
European system of human rights. The attempts of Azerbaijan to cast
shadow on the international legal norms and adjust them to their own
xenophobic, racist `value system' are doomed to failure. They only
equate the abominable murderer to the Azerbaijani leadership
glorifying him': Kocharyan told Armenpress.
From: A. Papazian
20:40, 1 September, 2012
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: Armenpress asked Deputy foreign
Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan to comment on the attempts of
official Baku to justify the pardon of Ramil Safarov, who killed the
Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe, while he was asleep, in
Budapest according to the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the Transfer
of Sentenced Persons. `The attempts of Baku to justify the granted
pardon to Ramil Safarov according to the provisions of Strasburg
Convention are as groundless and horrific as are the setting free and
honoring of the life imprisoned slaughterer. This alarming act of the
authorities of Azerbaijan not only contradicts to the humanistic
purposes of the Convention, but also to the spirit of the whole
European system of human rights. The attempts of Azerbaijan to cast
shadow on the international legal norms and adjust them to their own
xenophobic, racist `value system' are doomed to failure. They only
equate the abominable murderer to the Azerbaijani leadership
glorifying him': Kocharyan told Armenpress.
From: A. Papazian