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HUNGARY VIOLATED 18 OF STRASBOURG CONVENTION'S 20 ARTICLES - ARMENIAN POLITICAL ANALYST
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September 05, 2012 | 13:28
YEREVAN. - The general meaning of the Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons is that these persons can serve their
sentences in their countries, too. But by extraditing Ramil Safarov
and his being released in Azerbaijan, Hungary violated eighteen
of the Convention's twenty articles, Armenian Analytical Centre on
Globalization and Regional Cooperation Director, political scientist
Stepan Grigoryan said during a press conference on Wednesday.
In Grigoryan's words, however, the process is not over for Hungary.
The latter still has the right to demand from Azerbaijan to provide an
answer as to the current state of the process. It even has the right
to demand the return of Safarov, if he is not serving his sentence
in Azerbaijan.
The political analyst also recalled that the Convention was adopted
in Strasbourg, France, in 1983, and Armenia and Azerbaijan joined it
in 2001.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
From: A. Papazian
news.am
September 05, 2012 | 13:28
YEREVAN. - The general meaning of the Strasbourg Convention on the
Transfer of Sentenced Persons is that these persons can serve their
sentences in their countries, too. But by extraditing Ramil Safarov
and his being released in Azerbaijan, Hungary violated eighteen
of the Convention's twenty articles, Armenian Analytical Centre on
Globalization and Regional Cooperation Director, political scientist
Stepan Grigoryan said during a press conference on Wednesday.
In Grigoryan's words, however, the process is not over for Hungary.
The latter still has the right to demand from Azerbaijan to provide an
answer as to the current state of the process. It even has the right
to demand the return of Safarov, if he is not serving his sentence
in Azerbaijan.
The political analyst also recalled that the Convention was adopted
in Strasbourg, France, in 1983, and Armenia and Azerbaijan joined it
in 2001.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
From: A. Papazian