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CSTO ANALYZING PARDONING OF AZERI KILLER OF ARMENIAN MILITARY OFFICER
Interfax
Sept 5 2012
Russia
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Standing Committee
has listened to information on the pardoning of Ramil Safarov, an
Azeri military officer who killed Armenian officer Gurgen Markarian
in Budapest, CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
"Armenia's information on the situation surrounding the pardoning
by the Azeri authorities of Azeri army serviceman Ramil Safarov,
who was sentenced to life by a Hungarian court for brutally killing
Armenian Armed Forces officer Gurgen Markarian, was listened to and
taken into consideration," Zainetdinov said following an OSCE Standing
Committee session.
Participants in the session agreed that "these actions go against
efforts agreed upon at the international level, primarily at the level
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, and aimed at relieving tensions
in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said.
The participants discussed documents concerning the development of
a system of the CSTO members' collective response to extraordinary
situations and the training of personnel, he said.
CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha informed the Standing
Committee members of a draft agenda of a working meeting of the CSTO
foreign ministers, which is planned during the 67th session of the
UN General Assembly in New York.
Ramil Safarov, a senior lieutenant of the Azeri army, murdered Armenian
army lieutenant Gurgen Margarian for allegedly defiling the Azeri
flag in 2004 in Budapest, where both had been attending an English
language course as part of NATO's Partnership for Peace program. In
2006, a Budapest court gave Safarov a life sentence without the right
to parole for the first 30 years.
However, Hungary extradited Safarov to Azerbaijan on August 31,
and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him the same day. Azeri
Defense Minister Safar Abiyev met with Safarov, promoted him to major,
presented him with a key for a new apartment, and ordered that he be
paid his allowance for the past 8.5 years.
Armenia announced on Friday that it was severing diplomatic ties with
Hungary over Safarov's extradition to Azerbaijan.
From: Baghdasarian
Interfax
Sept 5 2012
Russia
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Standing Committee
has listened to information on the pardoning of Ramil Safarov, an
Azeri military officer who killed Armenian officer Gurgen Markarian
in Budapest, CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov said.
"Armenia's information on the situation surrounding the pardoning
by the Azeri authorities of Azeri army serviceman Ramil Safarov,
who was sentenced to life by a Hungarian court for brutally killing
Armenian Armed Forces officer Gurgen Markarian, was listened to and
taken into consideration," Zainetdinov said following an OSCE Standing
Committee session.
Participants in the session agreed that "these actions go against
efforts agreed upon at the international level, primarily at the level
of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, and aimed at relieving tensions
in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said.
The participants discussed documents concerning the development of
a system of the CSTO members' collective response to extraordinary
situations and the training of personnel, he said.
CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha informed the Standing
Committee members of a draft agenda of a working meeting of the CSTO
foreign ministers, which is planned during the 67th session of the
UN General Assembly in New York.
Ramil Safarov, a senior lieutenant of the Azeri army, murdered Armenian
army lieutenant Gurgen Margarian for allegedly defiling the Azeri
flag in 2004 in Budapest, where both had been attending an English
language course as part of NATO's Partnership for Peace program. In
2006, a Budapest court gave Safarov a life sentence without the right
to parole for the first 30 years.
However, Hungary extradited Safarov to Azerbaijan on August 31,
and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him the same day. Azeri
Defense Minister Safar Abiyev met with Safarov, promoted him to major,
presented him with a key for a new apartment, and ordered that he be
paid his allowance for the past 8.5 years.
Armenia announced on Friday that it was severing diplomatic ties with
Hungary over Safarov's extradition to Azerbaijan.
From: Baghdasarian