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    Politics.hu, Hungary
    Sept 27 2012

    Ministry says Hungary has `not much else' to offer Armenia in bid to
    restore relations

    By MTI



    Hungary has not much else it can do to help restore diplomatic ties
    with Armenia, Gabor Kaleta, press chief at the Foreign Ministry, told
    MTI on Wednesday.

    Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi has written a letter to his Armenian
    colleague, the ministry issued a note, `there is not much else we can
    do now,' he said.

    The ministry told the Armenian Foreign Ministry in a note that the
    Hungarian government had a vested interest in Armenia putting an end
    to the suspension of diplomatic relations without any preconditions.

    The Monday note, cited by news website hvg.hu on Wednesday, was a
    response to the Armenian Foreign Ministry's August 31 note on the
    suspension of diplomatic relations.

    Commenting on the Hungarian note, Armenian foreign affairs spokesman
    Tigran Balayan told the Armenpress news agency: `The Armenian position
    has remained unchanged. As declared previously, Armenia expects
    practical steps from Hungary.'

    Kaleta said Hungary wished to use primarily diplomatic channels in its
    communications with Armenia and is determined to make the suspension
    of diplomatic ties come to an end. However he said that as regards
    restoring diplomatic relations `there is no room for any kind of
    preconditions'.

    Hungary said from the start that the transfer of the Azerbaijani
    officer had not been directed against Armenia but was `an issue of
    international law.' He added that Hungary respects the Christian
    country of Armenia and the Armenian minority living in Hungary, on
    whom the ministry counted in helping to resolve the situation.

    Armenia decided to suspend diplomatic ties with Hungary on August 31,
    just after the Hungarian authorities repatriated Azerbaijani national
    Ramil Safarov on the understanding that he would continue to serve the
    life sentence he received in February 2004 for murdering an Armenian
    in Hungary.

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