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SUSPENSION OF DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH HUNGARY NOT GOAL BY ITSELF - ARMENIAN RULING PARTY
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September 27, 2012 | 00:20
YEREVAN. - Suspension of diplomatic ties with Hungary is not the goal
by itself and Budapest should realize it, ruling Republican Party
of Armenia (RPA) group secretary Hovhannes Sahakyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am. His comments came after Hungarian foreign office sent
a diplomatic note to the Armenian MFA.
"We may welcome the step by Hungary, however, the Hungarian people
and more important the Government should realize that [dealing
with Azerbaijan] they had dealt with a state which not only lacks
European but also universal values. Hungary should have known it deals
with barbarians, honoring a murderer," Sahakyan said, recalling how
Azeri killer Safarov became a hero in Azerbaijan upon returning from
Hungarian prison.
To note, Hungary wants to restore relations with Armenia without
preconditions.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Azeri killer 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.
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.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia
is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.
news.am
September 27, 2012 | 00:20
YEREVAN. - Suspension of diplomatic ties with Hungary is not the goal
by itself and Budapest should realize it, ruling Republican Party
of Armenia (RPA) group secretary Hovhannes Sahakyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am. His comments came after Hungarian foreign office sent
a diplomatic note to the Armenian MFA.
"We may welcome the step by Hungary, however, the Hungarian people
and more important the Government should realize that [dealing
with Azerbaijan] they had dealt with a state which not only lacks
European but also universal values. Hungary should have known it deals
with barbarians, honoring a murderer," Sahakyan said, recalling how
Azeri killer Safarov became a hero in Azerbaijan upon returning from
Hungarian prison.
To note, Hungary wants to restore relations with Armenia without
preconditions.
Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Azeri killer 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.
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.
Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia
is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.