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    THE TRANSFER OF AXE-MURDERER SAFAROV TO AZERBAIJAN WAS A "CORRECT AND RIGHT" DECISION, HUNGARY'S PM SAYS

    armradio.am
    17:02 02.10.2012

    The transfer of axe-murderer Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan was a "correct
    and right" decision, enabling Hungary to get out of the Azeri-Armenian
    conflict, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Parliament on Monday.

    The premier responded to critical remarks by Socialist MP Laszlo
    Kovacs, former Socialist foreign minister, politics.hu reports.

    Kovacs noted that both the foreign and the justice ministries had
    opposed the move, arguing that the murderer was celebrated as a
    national hero in his homeland and would be immediately released upon
    his repatriation.

    Kovacs asked why the government was satisfied with the Azerbaijani
    pledge of not to change Safarov's sentence and failed to ask about
    the chance of a presidential pardon.

    Orban said the government had made a correct and right decision
    that complied with the rules of international law and Hungary's
    legal practice.

    "We would have done the same if an Armenian had killed an Azerbaijani.

    Hungary should follow its own interests rather than those of Armenia
    or Azerbaijan," he said.

    Orban said that the decision had not been motivated by the promise
    of any short-term benefits. In the long term, however, it will have
    a benefit, the premier said. The Azeri-Armenian conflict, he said,
    is expected to last for a while but "Hungary has got out of it by
    transferring the Azeri convict. As long as he was here, he caused
    plenty of conflicts and difficulties and the situation would not have
    changed in the future either," he said.

    The Hungarian authorities repatriated Azerbaijani national Safarov
    on August 31 on the understanding that he would continue to serve the
    life sentence he received in February 2004 for murdering an Armenian
    in Hungary.On returning to Azerbaijan, Safarov was pardoned by his
    country's president Ilham Aliyev.

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