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    HUNGARY SHOULD HAVE CONSULTED WITH ARMENIA - UKRAINE'S FIRST AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

    news.am
    September 04, 2012 | 10:22

    Prior to deciding to extradite Ramil Safarov, the Hungarian government
    should have launched formal or informal consultations between the
    MFAs of Hungary and Armenia, Ukraine's First Ambassador to Armenia,
    Alexander Bozhko, told Analitika.at.ua.

    "It wasn't difficult to predict what reaction such step [that is,
    Safarov's extradition] would have received in Armenia, even if
    [Azerbaijani president Ilham] Aliyev had not granted pardon to the
    murderer," he noted.

    The diplomat added that, judging from everything, this matter was
    always present in the Armenian-Hungarian ties.

    "Even if it's necessary, such consultations are a universal diplomatic
    rule for information flow, which is often resorted to by the countries
    that consider one another friends and wish to maintain good relations.

    That's why the Hungarian MFA's arguments-that as if Hungary was pushed
    toward extraditing the murderer-toward receiving assurances from the
    Azerbaijani side for its readiness to carry out the international
    convention seem unconvincing, if not bizarre," stated Alexander Bozhko.

    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.

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