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EU EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT AZERBAIJANI RAMIL SAFAROV'S PARDON
New Europe
http://www.neurope.eu/article/eu-expresses-concern-about-azerbaijani-ramil-safarovs-pardon
Sept 5 2012
Article | September 4, 2012 - 3:01pm | By Stanislava Gaydazhieva
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Catherine Ashton, and her colleague the European Commissioner for
Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, tefan Fule, issued a joint
statement in relation to the pardon which the President of Azerbaijan
granted the Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov.
Safarov was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of the Armenian Army officer, Gurgen Margaryan, in Budapest
in 2004. However, he was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on 31
August on the basis of an Azerbaijani request to serve the rest of his
sentence in his country of origin. The request was in the framework
of the Convention of Strasbourg on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons
of 21 March 1983.
Immediately after his return to Azerbaijan, Ramil Safarov was pardoned
by the president of the country and welcomed as a national hero.
Ashton and Fule expressed concern over this act of the president,
while reiterating their call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to exercise
restraint, on the ground as well as in public statements, in order
to prevent an escalation of the situation.
In connection to the pardon of Safarov, the co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group which includes American, Russian and French ambassadors
and aims at finding a political solution to the conflict in and around
Nagorno-Karabakh involving Armenia and Azerbaijan, met separately on
2 September with the foreign minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian,
and on 3 September with the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar
Mammadyarov. The purpose of the meeting was to address and discuss
the recent events and to once again reiterate the obligations which
the two countries have internationally.
New Europe
http://www.neurope.eu/article/eu-expresses-concern-about-azerbaijani-ramil-safarovs-pardon
Sept 5 2012
Article | September 4, 2012 - 3:01pm | By Stanislava Gaydazhieva
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
Catherine Ashton, and her colleague the European Commissioner for
Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, tefan Fule, issued a joint
statement in relation to the pardon which the President of Azerbaijan
granted the Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov.
Safarov was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of the Armenian Army officer, Gurgen Margaryan, in Budapest
in 2004. However, he was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on 31
August on the basis of an Azerbaijani request to serve the rest of his
sentence in his country of origin. The request was in the framework
of the Convention of Strasbourg on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons
of 21 March 1983.
Immediately after his return to Azerbaijan, Ramil Safarov was pardoned
by the president of the country and welcomed as a national hero.
Ashton and Fule expressed concern over this act of the president,
while reiterating their call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to exercise
restraint, on the ground as well as in public statements, in order
to prevent an escalation of the situation.
In connection to the pardon of Safarov, the co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group which includes American, Russian and French ambassadors
and aims at finding a political solution to the conflict in and around
Nagorno-Karabakh involving Armenia and Azerbaijan, met separately on
2 September with the foreign minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian,
and on 3 September with the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar
Mammadyarov. The purpose of the meeting was to address and discuss
the recent events and to once again reiterate the obligations which
the two countries have internationally.