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ARMENIAN FORMER PRESIDENT'S OFFICE: "ILHAM ALIYEV EITHER DELIBERATELY DISTORTS FACTS OR IS UNAWARE OF THE PAST"
Mediamax
Sept 13 2012
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Office of former Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan issued a statement today refuting Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev's recent allegations.
The statement particularly reads
"On September 12, news agencies disseminated reports about the meeting
of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with the ambassadors of OSCE
member states in Gabala. The reports said that at the meeting Aliyev
said that in 2001 the President of Armenia allegedly pardoned an
Armenian terrorist Karapetyan, who was convicted to life imprisonment
in France and was extradited to Armenia on the same year.
The statement doesn't correspond to reality. This story is about
Varouzhan Karapetyan, who, being a citizen of Lebanon at the time,
was not extradited but was pardoned by French authorities in 2001 and
only after that he moved to the Republic of Armenia for permanent
residence. Detailed reports about these events are still available
on Internet and it makes no difficulty to find them.
Thus, we can state that trying to justify Ramil Safarov's pardoning
the President of Azerbaijan either deliberately distorts historical
facts or is unaware of the recent past.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Mediamax
Sept 13 2012
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Office of former Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan issued a statement today refuting Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev's recent allegations.
The statement particularly reads
"On September 12, news agencies disseminated reports about the meeting
of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev with the ambassadors of OSCE
member states in Gabala. The reports said that at the meeting Aliyev
said that in 2001 the President of Armenia allegedly pardoned an
Armenian terrorist Karapetyan, who was convicted to life imprisonment
in France and was extradited to Armenia on the same year.
The statement doesn't correspond to reality. This story is about
Varouzhan Karapetyan, who, being a citizen of Lebanon at the time,
was not extradited but was pardoned by French authorities in 2001 and
only after that he moved to the Republic of Armenia for permanent
residence. Detailed reports about these events are still available
on Internet and it makes no difficulty to find them.
Thus, we can state that trying to justify Ramil Safarov's pardoning
the President of Azerbaijan either deliberately distorts historical
facts or is unaware of the recent past.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress