AZERBAIJAN LOST ANY PROSPECT OF ITS BEING RELIABLE PARTNER – ENVOY
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 13, 2012 – 12:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Hungary has a lot to do to make up for the release
of convicted murderer Ramil Safarov, the Armenian Ambassador to Greece
and Cyprus, Gagik Ghalatchian, has said, according to Cyprus Mail.
Worldwide, the Armenian community has been protesting the release
of Safarov, an Azeri officer who hacked to death Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan in Hungary back in 2004. The two men were attending
a NATO-run English language course. Safarov was sentenced to life
imprisonment in Hungary but was sent back to Azerbaijan where he was
recently pardoned. On return to Azerbaijan Safarov was welcomed as
a hero, pardoned, promoted to the rank of major, and paid wages for
the eight years he was in jail.
“Hungary should apologize to the international community and Armenia
and should undertake such measures that are equivalent to the slap
received from Azerbaijan,” Ghalatchian said. “Otherwise, we will
continue considering this unfriendly gesture towards Armenia was a
deliberate and motivated action,” he said.
“We believe that with this act Azerbaijan once again, and this time
ultimately, lost any prospect of its being a reliable partner in
the eyes of the international community. We hope, and we are working
[towards] that direction, that the international community finally
stops the policy of false parity,” Ghalatchian said. He said that
the international community, “the United Nations, OSCE, EU, Council
of Europe, CSTO, NATO, the US., Russia, France and dozens of other
countries and organizations responded to this incident and expressed
their support to the Republic of Armenia.”
“But this is just the beginning of a process, he said. Armenia is
also going to raise the issue legally in the “competent institutions”
in relation to Azerbaijan and Hungary’s actions,” Chalatchian said.
From: Baghdasarian