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LITHUANIAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP DEPLORES AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES' MOVE
news.am
September 13, 2012 | 11:35
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker and
Lithuania-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group's Armenian Co-Chair
Eduard Sharmazanov had a telephonic conversation with the Group's
Lithuanian Co-Chair Algis Kaseta.
Sharmazanov appreciated several Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) MPs'
statement addressed to the international community, and with respect
to the Azerbaijani president's granting pardon to Ramil Safarov.
The statement's undersigned MPs have expressed their deep concern in
this connection, NA Public and Media Relations Department informs.
Also, the Seimas' member group expressed a conviction that Safarov's
pardon could result in the repeat of such crimes, it contradicts
with international norms, and could hamper the Nagorno-Karabakh peace
talks being conducted between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
During the telephone conversation, NA Deputy Speaker noted that
Armenia's parliament highly appreciates its Lithuanian colleagues'
equivalent response, whereby they join that international community
which condemned the Azerbaijani authorities' unlawful actions.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning is condemned by virtually all international
organizations.
news.am
September 13, 2012 | 11:35
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker and
Lithuania-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group's Armenian Co-Chair
Eduard Sharmazanov had a telephonic conversation with the Group's
Lithuanian Co-Chair Algis Kaseta.
Sharmazanov appreciated several Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament) MPs'
statement addressed to the international community, and with respect
to the Azerbaijani president's granting pardon to Ramil Safarov.
The statement's undersigned MPs have expressed their deep concern in
this connection, NA Public and Media Relations Department informs.
Also, the Seimas' member group expressed a conviction that Safarov's
pardon could result in the repeat of such crimes, it contradicts
with international norms, and could hamper the Nagorno-Karabakh peace
talks being conducted between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
During the telephone conversation, NA Deputy Speaker noted that
Armenia's parliament highly appreciates its Lithuanian colleagues'
equivalent response, whereby they join that international community
which condemned the Azerbaijani authorities' unlawful actions.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.
As expected, Ramil Safarov's return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev's
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.
And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
Ramil Safarov's pardoning is condemned by virtually all international
organizations.