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AZERBAIJANI LEADER DELIBERATELY DISTORTS HISTORICAL FACTS - OFFICE OF ARMENIA'S SECOND PRESIDENT
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September 13, 2012 | 13:04
YEREVAN. - Armenia's second President Robert Kocharyan's office issued
a statement, and noted that the news agencies disseminated information
on Wednesday with respect to Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's
meeting, in Gabala, Azerbaijan, with the ambassadors of OSCE countries.
"According to the information, during this meeting Aliyev stated that
in 2001 Armenia's President allegedly granted pardon to an Armenian
terrorist by the surname of Garabedian, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment in France and was extradited to Armenia in the same year.
This statement is untrue.
This refers to then Lebanon's citizen Varoujan Garabedian, who in
2001 was not extradited, but rather granted pardon by the French
authorities, and solely thereafter he was relocated to Armenia for
permanent residence.
This information still can be found on the web, with all the details
and without special efforts.
Therefore we must record that, by attempting to justify the granting of
pardon to Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijan's president is either deliberately
distorting the historical facts or is unaware of the developments in
the not-distant past," Robert Kocharyan's office states.
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 | 13:04
YEREVAN. - Armenia's second President Robert Kocharyan's office issued
a statement, and noted that the news agencies disseminated information
on Wednesday with respect to Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's
meeting, in Gabala, Azerbaijan, with the ambassadors of OSCE countries.
"According to the information, during this meeting Aliyev stated that
in 2001 Armenia's President allegedly granted pardon to an Armenian
terrorist by the surname of Garabedian, who was sentenced to life
imprisonment in France and was extradited to Armenia in the same year.
This statement is untrue.
This refers to then Lebanon's citizen Varoujan Garabedian, who in
2001 was not extradited, but rather granted pardon by the French
authorities, and solely thereafter he was relocated to Armenia for
permanent residence.
This information still can be found on the web, with all the details
and without special efforts.
Therefore we must record that, by attempting to justify the granting of
pardon to Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijan's president is either deliberately
distorting the historical facts or is unaware of the developments in
the not-distant past," Robert Kocharyan's office states.
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.