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  • CoE Sec Gen considers Safarov's extradition and pardon unacceptable

    Council of Europe Secretary General considers Safarov's extradition
    and pardon unacceptable

    NEWS.AM
    September 29, 2012 | 10:50

    YEREVAN. - Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian, who is in New York to attend
    the UN General Assembly session, on Friday continued his meetings with
    his colleagues from a variety of countries and with international
    organization heads.

    During his talk with Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General
    Thorbjørn Jagland, they discussed the preparations for Armenia's CoE
    chairmanship next year and planning the priorities of this
    chairmanship, and the Armenia-CoE Action Plan, Armenian MFA informs.

    Reflecting on Ramil Safarov's release and subsequent glorification in
    Azerbaijan, Thorbjørn Jagland considered this to be impermissible. In
    this connection, Armenia's FM highly appreciated the CoE Secretary
    General's and CoE organizations' unequivocally and unanimously
    condemning response.

    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.

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