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MEP CRITICIZES THE DECISION TO PARDON RAMIL SAFAROV
ARMRADIO.AM
05.09.2012 17:02
Elmar Brok MEP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
European Parliament, has criticized the decision by Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev to pardon Ramil Safarov, who has confessed to
the murder of an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004.
Mr. Brok commented: "I am deeply concerned about the decision to
pardon Ramil Safarov upon arrival in Baku, to publicly glorify him,
promote him to Major rank, pay him 8 years of salary and offer him
an apartment. Azerbaijan had given a written promise to the Hungarian
authorities that Mr Safarov would continue to serve his life sentence
for at least 25 years when he arrives in Azerbaijan. Now Azerbaijan
has broken this promise.
Safarov is an Azerbaijani soldier who murdered the Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan at their NATO training camp in Budapest in 2004. With
the decision to set him free, Azerbaijan is circumventing the valid
conviction of the court of an EU Member State and is presenting a
murderer as a role model to cheering children in Baku."
ARMRADIO.AM
05.09.2012 17:02
Elmar Brok MEP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
European Parliament, has criticized the decision by Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev to pardon Ramil Safarov, who has confessed to
the murder of an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004.
Mr. Brok commented: "I am deeply concerned about the decision to
pardon Ramil Safarov upon arrival in Baku, to publicly glorify him,
promote him to Major rank, pay him 8 years of salary and offer him
an apartment. Azerbaijan had given a written promise to the Hungarian
authorities that Mr Safarov would continue to serve his life sentence
for at least 25 years when he arrives in Azerbaijan. Now Azerbaijan
has broken this promise.
Safarov is an Azerbaijani soldier who murdered the Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan at their NATO training camp in Budapest in 2004. With
the decision to set him free, Azerbaijan is circumventing the valid
conviction of the court of an EU Member State and is presenting a
murderer as a role model to cheering children in Baku."