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PARDON FOR AZERBAIJANI AXE KILLER OF ARMENIAN MIGHT ENCOURAGE SIMILAR CRIMES - LITHUANIAN MPS
Baltic News Service / - BNS
September 10, 2012 Monday 11:55 AM EET
VILNIUS, Sep 10, BNS - A group of Lithuanian lawmakers issued
a statement addressed to the international community, expressing
concern over Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's decision to pardon
the country's officer Ramil Safarov who has killed an Armenian soldier
with an axe.
The MPs believe the pardon "might encourage similar crimes,
runs counter to international legal norms and might disrupt the
Azerbaijani-Armenian reconciliation process in an attempt to resolve
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," the statement reads.
It was signed by Algis Kaseta and Dalia Kuodyte, members of the
Liberal Movement, conservative MPs Kestutis Masiulis and Petras
Luomanas as well as Dangute Mikutiene, a member of the Labor Party,
the Seimas Publis Relations Unit said on Monday.
On Aug. 31, Hungary handed over to Baku Safarov who had been sentenced
to life imprisonment in Budapest without the right to be pardoned. He
killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, 30, at a Budapest military
academy in 2004.
Nevertheless, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him the same
day after he was extradited.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a bloody war in the 1990s over the region
of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Baltic News Service / - BNS
September 10, 2012 Monday 11:55 AM EET
VILNIUS, Sep 10, BNS - A group of Lithuanian lawmakers issued
a statement addressed to the international community, expressing
concern over Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's decision to pardon
the country's officer Ramil Safarov who has killed an Armenian soldier
with an axe.
The MPs believe the pardon "might encourage similar crimes,
runs counter to international legal norms and might disrupt the
Azerbaijani-Armenian reconciliation process in an attempt to resolve
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," the statement reads.
It was signed by Algis Kaseta and Dalia Kuodyte, members of the
Liberal Movement, conservative MPs Kestutis Masiulis and Petras
Luomanas as well as Dangute Mikutiene, a member of the Labor Party,
the Seimas Publis Relations Unit said on Monday.
On Aug. 31, Hungary handed over to Baku Safarov who had been sentenced
to life imprisonment in Budapest without the right to be pardoned. He
killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, 30, at a Budapest military
academy in 2004.
Nevertheless, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him the same
day after he was extradited.
Armenia and Azerbaijan waged a bloody war in the 1990s over the region
of Nagorno-Karabakh.