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    ARMENIA CUTS DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH HUNGARY OVER RELEASE OF AZERBAIJANI KILLER

    Times of India
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Armenia-cuts-diplomatic-ties-with-Hungary-over-release-of-Azerbaijani-killer/articleshow/16084555.cms
    Aug 31 2012

    YEREVAN (ARMENIA): 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.

    In response, Armenian President Serge Sarkisian announced that his
    country is "halting diplomatic relations and all official ties with
    Hungary."

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