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Armenian Justice Minister does not believe his Hungarian counterpart's honesty
news.am
August 31, 2012 | 21:19
YEREVAN. - Armenian Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan wrote a letter to
his Hungarian counterpart and expressed his deep indignation in
connection to the extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan. Armenian
News-NEWS.am presents the letter in full:
`To the Minister of Administration and Justice of Hungary Tibor Navracsics
Dear Navracsics,
I received news about murderer Ramil Safarov's extradition to
Azerbaijan by the Ministry of Administration and Justice of Hungary
with deep indignation and concern. The European values are universal
and they include humanity and the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides the opportunity for criminal
transfer based on humanity. However, other not less significant
European values include also justice and inevitability of punishment.
I am completely sure that you should have known what will happen with
Safarov in Azerbaijan. You should have known that you transfer a
person, having committed a murder based on motive of racial hostility,
to a country where he is considered a hero. You must have known that
the heroism is a slap first of all to the justice of Hungary and
generally to the whole European value system.
Let me not believe in your honesty when you say that you were
satisfied by some assurances of the Azerbaijani side.
You must have been assured by the Azerbaijani side that the murderer
will continue his punishment in his country. Moreover, even if those
assurances were given you should not have transferred Safarov to a
country where he was made a hero by the Azerbaijani authorities for
years.
I would have resigned in your place as a minister.
However, even in case of resignation, the family of Gurgen Margaryan,
the Armenian people and the whole progressive humanity will remember
you as the one having `justified' the murderer.
Taking into account the aforesaid, as well as the statement by the
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, the Ministry of Justice declares
about breaking all the bilateral relations within the European Council
and other international organizations with the Ministry of
Administration and Justice of Hungary.
The Minister of Justice of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan."
To note, the murder had taken place in Budapest on Feb. 19, 2004,
where two Armenian military servicemen were taking part in an
English-language course organized by NATO's Partnership for Peace
program.
In 2006, the Budapest court sentenced the Azerbaijani killer to life
in prison, and without a chance for pardon for thirty years. And the
reason for the brutal murder was simply that Margaryan was Armenian.
news.am
August 31, 2012 | 21:19
YEREVAN. - Armenian Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan wrote a letter to
his Hungarian counterpart and expressed his deep indignation in
connection to the extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan. Armenian
News-NEWS.am presents the letter in full:
`To the Minister of Administration and Justice of Hungary Tibor Navracsics
Dear Navracsics,
I received news about murderer Ramil Safarov's extradition to
Azerbaijan by the Ministry of Administration and Justice of Hungary
with deep indignation and concern. The European values are universal
and they include humanity and the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides the opportunity for criminal
transfer based on humanity. However, other not less significant
European values include also justice and inevitability of punishment.
I am completely sure that you should have known what will happen with
Safarov in Azerbaijan. You should have known that you transfer a
person, having committed a murder based on motive of racial hostility,
to a country where he is considered a hero. You must have known that
the heroism is a slap first of all to the justice of Hungary and
generally to the whole European value system.
Let me not believe in your honesty when you say that you were
satisfied by some assurances of the Azerbaijani side.
You must have been assured by the Azerbaijani side that the murderer
will continue his punishment in his country. Moreover, even if those
assurances were given you should not have transferred Safarov to a
country where he was made a hero by the Azerbaijani authorities for
years.
I would have resigned in your place as a minister.
However, even in case of resignation, the family of Gurgen Margaryan,
the Armenian people and the whole progressive humanity will remember
you as the one having `justified' the murderer.
Taking into account the aforesaid, as well as the statement by the
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, the Ministry of Justice declares
about breaking all the bilateral relations within the European Council
and other international organizations with the Ministry of
Administration and Justice of Hungary.
The Minister of Justice of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan."
To note, the murder had taken place in Budapest on Feb. 19, 2004,
where two Armenian military servicemen were taking part in an
English-language course organized by NATO's Partnership for Peace
program.
In 2006, the Budapest court sentenced the Azerbaijani killer to life
in prison, and without a chance for pardon for thirty years. And the
reason for the brutal murder was simply that Margaryan was Armenian.