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    Political expert: Safarov case radically changed situation around Karabakh

    ARMINFO
    Friday, June 7, 15:43


    Safarov case has radically changed the situation around the Karabakh
    peace process provoking a huge international scandal and throwing back
    the protracted negotiations, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the
    Caucasus Institute, said at the Caucasus- 2012 international
    conference in Yerevan, Friday.

    "Afterwards, Baku's all talks and promises 'to provide Karabakh with
    the highest level of autonomy' remain beyond the logic of the
    negotiation process. Glorification of a man for murder on ethnic
    motives made the relations of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan
    impossible.

    Iskandaryan believes that Safarov case has become a stalemate in the
    stalemate for the Karabakh peace process, as there were no
    opportunities to resolve the conflict even before that. So, it was
    hard for the mediators even to imitate the negotiation process, he
    said.

    To recall, on August 31 the Armenian authorities adopted a decision to
    suspend diplomatic relations and official contacts with Hungary.
    President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan made public the decision at a
    special meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions on Friday after
    the Hungarian authorities extradited Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, who
    was sentenced by a Hungarian court to life in jail for killing
    sleeping Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe in Budapest in
    2004. Both the officers were undergoing an English language course
    under the NATO PfP program. The same day after Safarov's extradition,
    Azeri President Ilham Aliyev decreed to pardon the criminal.

    Safarov case seriously damaged the international image of Azerbaijan
    and allowed Yerevan to demand sooner return of Nagorno Karabakh to the
    negotiating table. President Serzh Sargsyan called Karabakh's return
    to the negotiations 'natural and logical.' It was thanks to the
    efforts of the Minsk Group that the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign
    ministers met in Paris on October 27 and agreed on further meetings.

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