ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD EXTRAORDINARY SITTING
Focus News
Sept 3 2012
Bulgaria
Yerevan. The National Assembly of Armenia will hold an extraordinary
sitting on September 5 to adopt a declaration in connection to the
extradition and pardon of Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, RIA Novosti
reported.
In February 2004 Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, commissioned
to Budapest to attend English-language courses organised by NATO,
was killed with an axe by the Azeri officer Ramil Safarov, who was
attending the same course.
In April 2006 Safarov was sentenced to life imprisonment by the
Hungarian court. On Friday, August 31, 2012, the Azeri officer was
sent back to his country, where teh Azeri president pardoned him.
Safarov was even promoted to the rank of major, given a house and
eight years’ worth of back-pay.
Azerbaijan’s move incited a sharp reaction in Armenia. President
Serzh Sargsyan announced that his country terminates all diplomatic
relations and official connections with Hungary, while Minister of
Defence Seyran Ohanyan and Chief of the General Staff of the Army
Yuri Khachaturov ordered the army to be on high alert.