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HUNGARIAN EXPERT: HUNGARIAN PEOPLE STAND NOT BY GOVERNMENT BUT BY GRAVESTONE OF MURDERED ARMENIAN SOLDIER
Panorama.am
11/09/2012
The world must know that in the question of Ramil Safarov the
Hungarian, Christian people stand not by the government, but by the
gravestone and the family of the murdered Christian Armenian soldier,
Gurgen Makaryan, Peter Farkas Zarug, a Hungarian political analyst
and Assistant University Professor, told Panorama.am.
"In Hungary the foreign policy of the second Orban cabinet has
arrived at its final bankruptcy. The Hungarian nation does not want
blood money for the Armenian serviceman, it abhors the promise of a
fistful of dollars,"he said.
The analyst said that there is no one today in the civilized Christian
world, who receives not with acute embarrassment or loud denunciation
the act of the muddle-headed, blundering Hungarian Foreign Office in
returning Major Ramil Safarov to his home in Azerbaijan.
"The Foreign Affairs' vacuous excuses and the sheepish presentation
on behalf of the Orban cabinet of a memorandum to the Azerbaijani
ambassador in Budapest, all aim to prove that from Janos Martonyi
to Zsolt Nemeth, from Peter Szíjjarto to Viktor Orban everyone was
convinced that the Azeris will keep Safarov in prison until the end
of his life. They are trying to make us, Hungarians, the Christian
nations of the world and the Armenians of the world believe that
they trusted the Azeri promise that the ax murderer will be treated
as guilty and subject to due punishment," said he.
In his opinion, following the 2004 language training course within the
NATO Partnership for Peace, during one night of which an Azeri officer
hostile to Armenia executed in his sleep the Armenian serviceman,
official participant at the event, it became clear that Hungary had
no extradition agreement with Azerbaijan and for a crime committed
on its territory, Safarov was to face trial for murder in Hungary.
"Besides, Safarov could not be repatriated for trial, since due to
the state of war with Armenia, his act would not be regarded as a
crime by Azerbaijan. Bearing in mind the above, according to the
code of practice and rules of international law, the sentence also
needed to be enforced and served on the territory where the crime was
committed, i.e in Hungary. The international judicial interdiction of
extraditing Safarov thus did not only apply to the trial stage of the
case, but also to the duration of serving the sentence," said Zarug.
As he said, in the spirit of eastern opening and in pursuit of sources
for the external financing of Hungarian state debt, in his second
premiership Viktor Orban has already paid two visits to Azerbaijan.
"He has been in negotiations with President Ilham Aliyev - son of
Heydar Aliyev, the communist ex-KGB boss promoted to president -
who pardoned Safarov the minute his plane landed in Baku. He rewarded
the ax murderer with a new apartment, promotion and back-dated wages,
while the Azeri foreign office expressed its gratitude to the Orban
cabinet for more than a year's fruitful co-operation," he added.
The analyst said that, of course, in Hungary each played the same tune,
that the silver piece is not his, he struck no deal, nor indeed was
there ever a word uttered around the dinner tables laden with Eastern
wealth and arrows of irony aimed at EU bureaucrats about a fistful
of dollars. Albeit only a week earlier it was the Orban-leadership
itself that boasted in its media that it was on the brink of a three
billion government bond agreement with Azerbaijan.
He wonders whether the government correctly assesses that this is in
the longer-term interest of Hungary, for which it is worth swallowing
this 'tiny' bitter pill. How long can one impute interests to again and
again trample underfoot their moral fundaments, only because there are
some who - following today's increasingly confused Hungarian foreign
policy directions - assert that: this is the Hungarian interest!
"No! The interest of the Hungarian people - with or without the
expected Azeri billions - would have been that the Hungarian state
defends its sovereignty and Safarov complete his prison sentence in
Hungary. It was not a Hungarian interest to be branded as Judas by the
entire Christian civilization. It was not in our interest to be made
the laughing stock of the international community of nations. No! All
well-intentioned Hungarians, Armenians, Christians, Europeans and
democrats are united in their protest against this. This is alien to
our civilisation," the expert added.
From: Baghdasarian
Panorama.am
11/09/2012
The world must know that in the question of Ramil Safarov the
Hungarian, Christian people stand not by the government, but by the
gravestone and the family of the murdered Christian Armenian soldier,
Gurgen Makaryan, Peter Farkas Zarug, a Hungarian political analyst
and Assistant University Professor, told Panorama.am.
"In Hungary the foreign policy of the second Orban cabinet has
arrived at its final bankruptcy. The Hungarian nation does not want
blood money for the Armenian serviceman, it abhors the promise of a
fistful of dollars,"he said.
The analyst said that there is no one today in the civilized Christian
world, who receives not with acute embarrassment or loud denunciation
the act of the muddle-headed, blundering Hungarian Foreign Office in
returning Major Ramil Safarov to his home in Azerbaijan.
"The Foreign Affairs' vacuous excuses and the sheepish presentation
on behalf of the Orban cabinet of a memorandum to the Azerbaijani
ambassador in Budapest, all aim to prove that from Janos Martonyi
to Zsolt Nemeth, from Peter Szíjjarto to Viktor Orban everyone was
convinced that the Azeris will keep Safarov in prison until the end
of his life. They are trying to make us, Hungarians, the Christian
nations of the world and the Armenians of the world believe that
they trusted the Azeri promise that the ax murderer will be treated
as guilty and subject to due punishment," said he.
In his opinion, following the 2004 language training course within the
NATO Partnership for Peace, during one night of which an Azeri officer
hostile to Armenia executed in his sleep the Armenian serviceman,
official participant at the event, it became clear that Hungary had
no extradition agreement with Azerbaijan and for a crime committed
on its territory, Safarov was to face trial for murder in Hungary.
"Besides, Safarov could not be repatriated for trial, since due to
the state of war with Armenia, his act would not be regarded as a
crime by Azerbaijan. Bearing in mind the above, according to the
code of practice and rules of international law, the sentence also
needed to be enforced and served on the territory where the crime was
committed, i.e in Hungary. The international judicial interdiction of
extraditing Safarov thus did not only apply to the trial stage of the
case, but also to the duration of serving the sentence," said Zarug.
As he said, in the spirit of eastern opening and in pursuit of sources
for the external financing of Hungarian state debt, in his second
premiership Viktor Orban has already paid two visits to Azerbaijan.
"He has been in negotiations with President Ilham Aliyev - son of
Heydar Aliyev, the communist ex-KGB boss promoted to president -
who pardoned Safarov the minute his plane landed in Baku. He rewarded
the ax murderer with a new apartment, promotion and back-dated wages,
while the Azeri foreign office expressed its gratitude to the Orban
cabinet for more than a year's fruitful co-operation," he added.
The analyst said that, of course, in Hungary each played the same tune,
that the silver piece is not his, he struck no deal, nor indeed was
there ever a word uttered around the dinner tables laden with Eastern
wealth and arrows of irony aimed at EU bureaucrats about a fistful
of dollars. Albeit only a week earlier it was the Orban-leadership
itself that boasted in its media that it was on the brink of a three
billion government bond agreement with Azerbaijan.
He wonders whether the government correctly assesses that this is in
the longer-term interest of Hungary, for which it is worth swallowing
this 'tiny' bitter pill. How long can one impute interests to again and
again trample underfoot their moral fundaments, only because there are
some who - following today's increasingly confused Hungarian foreign
policy directions - assert that: this is the Hungarian interest!
"No! The interest of the Hungarian people - with or without the
expected Azeri billions - would have been that the Hungarian state
defends its sovereignty and Safarov complete his prison sentence in
Hungary. It was not a Hungarian interest to be branded as Judas by the
entire Christian civilization. It was not in our interest to be made
the laughing stock of the international community of nations. No! All
well-intentioned Hungarians, Armenians, Christians, Europeans and
democrats are united in their protest against this. This is alien to
our civilisation," the expert added.
From: Baghdasarian