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HUNGARY GOT ENTANGLED IN ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFLICT BY SAFAROV TRANSFER: HUNGARY FM
ARMENPRESS
13 September, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The decision to transfer Ramil
Safarov back to his home country, Azerbaijan, was a collective
government one and all involved bear responsibility for it, Foreign
Minister Janos Martonyi told lawmakers. As Armenpress reports citing
Politics.hu, Martonyi, briefing the foreign affairs committee about
repatriation of Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing an Armenian in Budapest in 2004, said Hungary "willingly or
unwillingly" had got entangled in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict
on that date. Safarov, a soldier, had served eight years of a life
sentence for killing the Armenian officer during a NATO language
course. He was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on August 31. On
arrival in Baku, he was pardoned by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and
released. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary later
that day. Martonyi firmly rejected allegations that there had been
any backdoor agreement concluded between Hungary and Azerbaijan. He
said this would become apparent in the course of time. He said the
Azeri authorities had made a clear commitment to continuing the
murderer's prison sentence and the Hungarian government had taken
its assurances at face value. "Complete proof is impossible," he
said. Rather, cooperation works on the basis of good faith, he said,
adding that the Azeri side had reneged on the agreement. The Hungarian
government's decision to repatriate Safarov had been "painful" and
"not easy", he said, referring to long-standing good relations with
Armenia and its minority community living in Hungary.
ARMENPRESS
13 September, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The decision to transfer Ramil
Safarov back to his home country, Azerbaijan, was a collective
government one and all involved bear responsibility for it, Foreign
Minister Janos Martonyi told lawmakers. As Armenpress reports citing
Politics.hu, Martonyi, briefing the foreign affairs committee about
repatriation of Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing an Armenian in Budapest in 2004, said Hungary "willingly or
unwillingly" had got entangled in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict
on that date. Safarov, a soldier, had served eight years of a life
sentence for killing the Armenian officer during a NATO language
course. He was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on August 31. On
arrival in Baku, he was pardoned by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and
released. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary later
that day. Martonyi firmly rejected allegations that there had been
any backdoor agreement concluded between Hungary and Azerbaijan. He
said this would become apparent in the course of time. He said the
Azeri authorities had made a clear commitment to continuing the
murderer's prison sentence and the Hungarian government had taken
its assurances at face value. "Complete proof is impossible," he
said. Rather, cooperation works on the basis of good faith, he said,
adding that the Azeri side had reneged on the agreement. The Hungarian
government's decision to repatriate Safarov had been "painful" and
"not easy", he said, referring to long-standing good relations with
Armenia and its minority community living in Hungary.