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    Interfax, Russia
    Sept 1 2012


    Azerbaijan raps "hysterical" protests from Armenia at officer's extradition

    BAKU. Sept 1


    Friday's extradition to Azerbaijan of an Azeri army officer sentenced
    to life imprisonment in Hungary in 2006 for murdering an Armenian was
    a completely legitimate move, the Azeri Foreign Ministry argued on
    Saturday, dismissing "hysterical" protests from the president of
    Armenia.

    Senior Lt. Ramil Safarov murdered Armenian officer Gurgen Markarian in
    a fit of frenzy for allegedly insulting the Azeri flag during
    NATO-organized classes in Budapest in 2004. In April 2006, a Budapest
    court gave Safarov a life sentence without the right to appeal for
    pardon for the first 30 years of his incarceration.

    On Friday, Hungary sent Safarov back to Baku, and the same day Azeri
    President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him. On Saturday, Azeri Defense
    Minister Safar Abiyev had a meeting with Safarov at which he conferred
    the rank of major on the officer, handed him keys to a new apartment
    and returned him pay for eight and a half years.

    "The repatriation of Ramil Safarov is a matter that belongs to
    relations between Azerbaijan and Hungary, stays within the limits of
    law and does not contradict any standards or principles of
    international law," Azeri Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev
    told a briefing on Saturday.

    "As regards the Armenian side, the hysterical statements of [President
    Serzh] Sargzyan, who has his hands up to the elbow in the blood of
    civilian residents of the Azeri town of Khojaly, are nothing else than
    a show and an act of populism," Abdullayev said.

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    From: A. Papazian
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