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EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE AND COMMISSIONER VOICE CONCERN AT RAMIL SAFAROV CASE
ENPI Info Centre
http://enpi-info.eu/maineast.php?id=30070&id_type=1&lang_id=450
Sept 4 2012
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and
Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Commissioner tefan Fule
have voiced concern at the news that the President of Azerbaijan has
pardoned Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov, who had been convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Armenian Army
officer Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest in 2004.
"In the interest of regional stability and on-going efforts towards
reconciliation," the statement said, "the High Representative and
Commissioner Fule reiterated their call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to
exercise restraint, on the ground as well as in public statements,
in order to prevent an escalation of the situation."
Ramil Safarov was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on 31 August
following an Azerbaijani request, in the framework of the Convention
of Strasbourg on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons of 21 March 1983,
to serve the rest of his sentence. EU representatives are in contact
with the relevant authorities and will continue to follow the situation
closely, the statement said. (EU Neighbourhood Info)
From: A. Papazian
ENPI Info Centre
http://enpi-info.eu/maineast.php?id=30070&id_type=1&lang_id=450
Sept 4 2012
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and
Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Commissioner tefan Fule
have voiced concern at the news that the President of Azerbaijan has
pardoned Azerbaijani army officer Ramil Safarov, who had been convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Armenian Army
officer Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest in 2004.
"In the interest of regional stability and on-going efforts towards
reconciliation," the statement said, "the High Representative and
Commissioner Fule reiterated their call on Azerbaijan and Armenia to
exercise restraint, on the ground as well as in public statements,
in order to prevent an escalation of the situation."
Ramil Safarov was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on 31 August
following an Azerbaijani request, in the framework of the Convention
of Strasbourg on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons of 21 March 1983,
to serve the rest of his sentence. EU representatives are in contact
with the relevant authorities and will continue to follow the situation
closely, the statement said. (EU Neighbourhood Info)
From: A. Papazian