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HUNGARIAN EUROPE SOCIETY DECLARATION ABOUT SAFAROV EXTRADITION
Panorama.am
10/09/2012
The Hungarian government has caused an international scandal by
sending home a nationalist Azerbaijani soldier who had been convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment for brutally murdering an Armenian
soldier in Budapest in 2004, the Hungarian Europe Society's declaration
says.
This unscrupulous decision done in the hope of securing financial
support might not only destroy friendship with Armenia, but might
even rekindle the frozen conflict in the Caucasus. The Hungarian
government apparently does not care about these consequences.
The feeling of outrage and shame is hardly affected by the uncertainty
of whether the government knew in advance that the criminal
sentenced to life imprisonment would be welcomed as a hero in Baku,
or truly made a miscalculation and falsely believed the promise of an
authoritarian regime. In order to clarify the truth and to identify
those responsible, it is necessary to set up a parliamentary committee
of inquiry, as was done after a scandal ensued from the sale of arms
to Croatia after the regime-change in Hungary.
The "axe-gate" scandal also demonstrates the serious failure of the
Hungarian government's "adventurer policy" of moving away from the
West and opening up to the East without any principles. For the past
two long years, many political steps of the Orban government have
essentially contradicted the European Union's value system. That is why
we are looking forward to the position of the EU Council of Foreign
Ministers as well as to the definite, fast action and investigation
of the European Parliament regarding this unprecedented case, says
the declaration, posted on the organization's website.
Panorama.am
10/09/2012
The Hungarian government has caused an international scandal by
sending home a nationalist Azerbaijani soldier who had been convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment for brutally murdering an Armenian
soldier in Budapest in 2004, the Hungarian Europe Society's declaration
says.
This unscrupulous decision done in the hope of securing financial
support might not only destroy friendship with Armenia, but might
even rekindle the frozen conflict in the Caucasus. The Hungarian
government apparently does not care about these consequences.
The feeling of outrage and shame is hardly affected by the uncertainty
of whether the government knew in advance that the criminal
sentenced to life imprisonment would be welcomed as a hero in Baku,
or truly made a miscalculation and falsely believed the promise of an
authoritarian regime. In order to clarify the truth and to identify
those responsible, it is necessary to set up a parliamentary committee
of inquiry, as was done after a scandal ensued from the sale of arms
to Croatia after the regime-change in Hungary.
The "axe-gate" scandal also demonstrates the serious failure of the
Hungarian government's "adventurer policy" of moving away from the
West and opening up to the East without any principles. For the past
two long years, many political steps of the Orban government have
essentially contradicted the European Union's value system. That is why
we are looking forward to the position of the EU Council of Foreign
Ministers as well as to the definite, fast action and investigation
of the European Parliament regarding this unprecedented case, says
the declaration, posted on the organization's website.