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    ARMENIA CUTS DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH HUNGARY

    Today's Zaman
    Aug 31 2012
    Turkey

    Armenia's president says his country is cutting diplomatic ties with
    Hungary after the release of an Azerbaijani military officer convicted
    of hacking to death an Armenian officer.

    The Azerbaijani officer, Lt. Ramil Safarov, was sent back to his
    homeland on Friday and, despite assurances, immediately pardoned and
    freed by his country's president.

    Safarov was given a life sentence in 2006 by the Budapest City
    Court after he confessed to killing Lt. Gurgen Markarian of Armenia
    while both were in Hungary for a NATO language course. Azerbaijan and
    Armenia are ex-Soviet neighbors who have been locked in a long-standing
    conflict over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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