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    Baroness Cox: Azerbaijan broke faith

    September 28, 2013 | 15:10


    YEREVAN. - Azerbaijan broke faith and behaved in an appalling way by
    making a hero of Ramil Safarov, Baroness Caroline Cox said.

    `We must never forget that the Armenian army officer was murdered in
    his sleep,' she said during the opening ceremony of a monument to
    slain officer Gurgen Margaryan.

    Baroness Cox said she was deeply shocked when Azerbaijan celebrated
    the murderer as a hero.

    `I am very worried by the massage that it gives to a younger
    generation in Azerbaijan, if they are taught to treat a murderer as a
    hero.'

    Caroline Cox recalled that Ramil Safarov got a life sentence in
    Hungary.

    `I do not know why he was sent back to Azerbaijan, but I think
    Azerbaijan promised he would continue his sentence in prison.'

    As reported earlier, Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the
    Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31, 2012 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. Safarov had planned on
    killing the other Armenian military serviceman, who likewise was
    attending the aforesaid program, but he was unable to carry out this
    plan.

    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, he was declared a national hero, promoted to a higher
    military rank, and was allocated housing and pension.

    And Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012
    that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary. Also,
    Sargsyan instructed the Ministry of Justice to take all measures to
    petition to the international judicial tribunals, and with respect to
    the Safarov case.

    Ramil Safarov's pardoning was condemned by virtually all international
    organizations.

    The Armenian party had applied to ECtHR in February, in connection
    with the Ramil Safarov case. The complaint is with respect to Articles
    2 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Armenian and
    foreign specialists are included in the working group that is
    preparing the complaint.

    http://news.am/eng/news/173474.html

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