KERRY STATEMENT ON RELEASE OF RAMIL SAFAROV
Congressional Documents and Publications
September 5, 2012
Senate Foreign Relations Committee News Release
The following information was released by the Chairman of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,
today responded to the transfer and release of Ramil Safarov, an
Azeri soldier who hacked an Armenian soldier to death in his sleep
at a Partnership for Peace exercise in 2004. The Hungarians released
Safarov to Azerbaijan where he was set free and treated like a hero.
Hungary recently transferred Ramil Safarov, who had been serving
a life sentence for the axe murder of an Armenian soldier at an
international exercise in 2004, to Azerbaijan, with the apparent
understanding that his prison term would continue. I am shocked and
appalled that Azerbaijan not only welcomed Safarov home, but pardoned,
promoted, and treated him as a hero. This needlessly provocative act
endangers the fragile peace between these countries and damages the
government of Azerbaijans credibility.
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