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SOCIALISTS CALL FOR FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESIGNATION OVER AZERI DIPLOMATIC DEBACLE
Politics.hu
Sept 3 2012
Hungary
The main opposition Socialists called for the resignation of Foreign
Minister Janos Martonyi on Sunday, stating that the events that
followed the transferral home of life-sentenced Azerbaijani Ramil
Sahib Safarov in the past two days have created an "impossible"
situation for Hungarian diplomacy.
Socialist lawmaker and head of parliament's national security committee
Zsolt Molnar said he had initiated at the committee's next meeting
hearings for Martonyi, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister
Tibor Navracsics and the head of the Information Office, which is in
charge of gathering intelligence in connection with foreign countries.
It must be clarified whether the Information Office had been aware
of the possible consequences of the extradition and whether it had
informed the government about this, Molnar said.
Safarov was convicted in Hungary for murdering Armenian fellow-soldier
Gurgen Margaryan with an axe in 2004 in Budapest. On returning to
Azerbaijan on Friday, Safarov requested and got a pardon from his
country's president Ilham Aliyev. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
said in Yerevan later in the day that Armenia had decided to break
diplomatic ties with Hungary.
http://www.politics.hu/20120903/socialists-call-for-foreign-ministers-resignation-over-azeri-diplomatic-debacle/
From: Baghdasarian
Politics.hu
Sept 3 2012
Hungary
The main opposition Socialists called for the resignation of Foreign
Minister Janos Martonyi on Sunday, stating that the events that
followed the transferral home of life-sentenced Azerbaijani Ramil
Sahib Safarov in the past two days have created an "impossible"
situation for Hungarian diplomacy.
Socialist lawmaker and head of parliament's national security committee
Zsolt Molnar said he had initiated at the committee's next meeting
hearings for Martonyi, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister
Tibor Navracsics and the head of the Information Office, which is in
charge of gathering intelligence in connection with foreign countries.
It must be clarified whether the Information Office had been aware
of the possible consequences of the extradition and whether it had
informed the government about this, Molnar said.
Safarov was convicted in Hungary for murdering Armenian fellow-soldier
Gurgen Margaryan with an axe in 2004 in Budapest. On returning to
Azerbaijan on Friday, Safarov requested and got a pardon from his
country's president Ilham Aliyev. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
said in Yerevan later in the day that Armenia had decided to break
diplomatic ties with Hungary.
http://www.politics.hu/20120903/socialists-call-for-foreign-ministers-resignation-over-azeri-diplomatic-debacle/
From: Baghdasarian