Author: Andres-Papazian

EP PRESIDENT EXPRESSES HIS HORROR AFTER SAFAROV RELEASE

armradio.am
05.09.2012 13:11

European Parliament head Martin Schulz expressed horror Tuesday after
Azerbaijan brushed aside criticism of its pardon for a soldier who
axed an Armenian officer to death in his sleep.

“The convention on the transfer of sentenced people should not be
abused for political purpose,” Schulz said in a statement.

“I am disturbed by what appears to be a politically motivated pardon
of Mr Safarov by the president of Azerbaijan,” he added, while urging
Azerbaijan and Armenia “to avoid any moves and statements that might
exacerbate the situation.”

From: A. Papazian

TO OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS
Hranush Kharatyan

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 12:18:12 – 05/09/2012

Now that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the OSCE CiO PR Andzej
Kasprzyk have met with the foreign ministers Eduard Nalbandyan of
Armenia and Elmar Mammedyarov of Azerbaijan after Ramil Safarov’s case,
discussed the recent developments in the region and then gave birth
to a meaningless statement in which they expressed their deep concern
over the harm of Safarov’s pardon and attempts to glorify his crime
to the atmosphere of confidence between the sides, and announced,
putting an equal mark between Armenia and Azerbaijan, that they will
continue to keep in touch with the sides to ease tension and ensure
progress in the negotiations, it is crisp and clear that the OSCE Minsk
Group and their authorizing countries are unlikely to do anything to
“build confidence” between the sides.

Obviously, not only Hungary is responsible for the outrageous
extradition of the assassin Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan. The
responsibility and shame is shared by at least the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs and their countries, the United States, Russia and France.

For over 15 years the Armenian refugees of Azerbaijan have been
trying to draw the attention of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to
the outrageous fact that the issue of Armenian refugees is not on
the agenda of the talks over Karabakh. It is not there in terms of
further existence of refugees, assessment of the racist policy of
Azerbaijan that resulted in refugees and making relevant decisions.

>From Sumgait till 1990, for two years, Armenian refugees of Baku,
Kirovabad, Shaqi and other parts of Azerbaijan, narrowly escaped
from thirty-forty or more packs of bounty hunters. Many of them got
killed, they lost their property. It goes without saying that the
outrageous judicial system of the USSR, or in this case we can also
say Russia, encouraged the longevity of those bloody killers until
all the Armenians left Azerbaijan and were no longer accessible.

Throughout the USSR, yet encouraged by the world, in fact, these
ethnic killers are heroes for their own ethnic communities, giving
birth to dreams of new heroic ethnic killers. Ramil Safarov is one
of them. He dreamt of killing an Armenian and was finally able to
meet one in Budapest.

The ethnic heroes of Azerbaijan of the past 24 years are groups that
hack people to death in sleep, rape old ladies, torture children to
death, burn helpless and armless people, rob people’s homes. These
heroes did not dare to kill and rob elderly people when they
were alone. They went in groups, chanting “death to Armenians” to
harshness. The slogan “Death to Armenians” decorated their bandanas
which they wore proudly in all the towns of Azerbaijan, including
capital Baku. Hacking and slaughtering Armenians is the job which is
highly appreciated and praised by the government. Ramil Safarov is
only one of them. He also dreamt of death of Armenians but unlike
the rest Ramil Safarov was courageous. He was all alone when he
entered the room of the sleeping Armenian young man and killed him
with an axe. Certainly, it was 5:30 in the morning, and the Armenian
young man was in deep sleep and could not resist him but entering a
room where an Armenian is alone and in sleep is real courage for any
member of those packs. Ramil Safarov wanted to be a hero like those
cowardly sons of a bitch in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad who are the
pillars of the state called “Azerbaijan”. These scoundrels supported
by the authorities and praised for their crimes who killed hundreds of
Armenians, mutilated thousands, sent into insanity tens of thousands,
have not been discussed in the context of regulation of the Karabakh
issue, including by the Minks Group which thus has contributed to
their abject heroism. Denial of this explicit anti-Armenian racism
propagated by the Azerbaijani authorities is the most significant
factor impeding the peace process and mutual confidence of the sides.

Having consistently neglected the Armenian refugees for 20 years,
intentionally avoided revelation of the real cause and effect relations
of emergence of Armenian refugees in the state called Azerbaijan,
failed to address the practice of praising killers of Armenians for
24 years, steady anti-Armenian hatred instilled by the authorities,
shut an eye on the destruction of Armenian khachkars in Djolfa and
construction of a military polygon there, the Minsk Group contributes
to encouragement of ethnocide by Azerbaijani scoundrels.

So, I regret to express my deep concern about the damage to the peace
talks and mutual confidence building caused by the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs’ maneuvering behavior.

From: A. Papazian

AZERTAC MAKES UP A NEW ASALA: ANOTHER AZERBAIJANI DECEPTION REVEALED

ARMENPRESS
5 September, 2012
YEREVAN

Yerevan, September 5, ARMENPRESS: Pardoning of the Azerbaijani military
Ramil Safarov for axe-murder of the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan
has become a real disaster for the Azerbaijani authoritues.

The “establishment” of a new Armenian ASALA and spread of appeal
letters has become another reason for Azerbaijani hysteria.

Nevertheless, the Azeri’s propaganda failed, when they tried
to represent the ASALA’s given number of 600,000 victims fell
during the Armenian Genocide. According to Armenpress, the Azertac
website published the so-called appeal letter sent by the Armenian
organization, which was sent to the Azerbaijani Embassy to Hungary
on September 3.

The letter supposedly says that Armenians promised to target all the
Azerbaijani delegates, students and activists worldwide in case of
releasing the murderer of Gurgen Margaryan. This has to be considered
as the continuation of Azerbaijan’s game. The fake of the information
spread by the Azerbaijani mass media is the evidence that ASALA,
speaking on the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the letter,
mentions: “The genocide, committed by the Turks, which gave about
600,000 Armenian victims, today is alive in Armenians’ memory”. It
is quite difficult to understand the Azerbaijani’s logic: in case
when ASALA is announced to be an Armenian national organization in
Turkey and Azerbaijan, how can it publicly announce about only 600,000
Armenian victims. The fact of a million and a half Armenian victims
has already been a recognized fact worlwide.

From: A. Papazian

L’AZERBAIDJAN MENACE LA PAIX REGIONALE EN GLORIFIANT UN CRIME RACISTE

Publie le : 05-09-2012

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN vous
presente cette newsletter bimensuelle sur l’actualite politique,
economique et culturelle du Haut-Karabagh mise a notre disposition
par la Representation de la Republique du Haut-Karabagh en France.

Representation du Haut-Karabagh en France

2012-09-04 14:17

La republique du Haut-Karabagh condamne avec la dernière vigueur,
la liberation, la grâce et la promotion du criminel Ramil Safarov
par l’Azerbaïdjan. Elle considère que cette provocation politique de
Bakou porte un rude coup au processus de negociations mene dans le
cadre du Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE.

Par de tels agissements, l’Azerbaïdjan demontre une nouvelle
fois qu’il constitue une menace fondamentale a l’existence et a
la securite physique des Armeniens, enterinant ainsi de lui-meme
l’impossibilite categorique et definitive du retour du Haut-Karabagh
sous sa juridiction.

” Personne ne peut exiger de populations armeniennes qu’elles vivent
sous la coupe d’un Etat qui glorifie – sur la base de considerations
racistes – le meurtre d’Armeniens. Nous appelons tous ceux pour qui les
droits de l’Homme et le droit international font sens a condamner sans
reserve le regime criminel de Bakou ” a declare Hovhannès Guevorguian,
le representant en France de la Republique du Haut-Karabagh.

Le 31 août dernier, les autorites hongroises ont transfere le criminel
Ramil Safarov en Azerbaïdjan. En 2004, en Hongrie, Safarov avait
froidement decapite a la hache Gourguen Markarian – un officier
armenien – alors que celui-ci dormait. Safarov avait ete condamne
a perpetuite dont 30 ans incompressibles. Aussitôt arrive a Bakou,
le meurtrier a ete libere, gracie par le president Aliyev et promu
au grade de major.

” La decision de la justice hongroise d’extrader l’assassin vers
l’Azerbaïdjan indigne tous les Karabaghiotes par sa candeur et son
amateurisme : dès 2004, Ramil Safarov a ete proclame ‘heros national’
par l’Azerbaïdjan et l’Ombudsman azerie de l’epoque, Mme Elmira
Suleymanova, avait alors declare qu’il ‘devrait servir d’exemple
pour la jeunesse azerie’. ” a poursuivi Hovhannès Guevorguian. ” La
grâce du president Aliyev, la glorification du tueur et la reaction
de l’opinion publique azerie ne constituent qu’une confirmation du
caractère armenophobe et raciste du regime de Bakou et d’une societe
azerbaïdjanaise entière endoctrinee a la haine ” a-t-il conclu.

La republique du Haut-Karabagh note que l’affaire Safarov demontre
aussi combien l’Azerbaïdjan se moque de ses engagements juridiques
europeens et de la communaute internationale et qu’il ne saurait a
ce titre constituer un partenaire credible.

Retour a la rubrique

Source/Lien : Representation du Haut-Karabagh en France

From: A. Papazian

SA SAINTETE ARAM 1ER ANNONCE LA CREATION D’UN FONDS POUR LE SEMINAIRE GRACE A LA VENTE D’UN VIEUX MANUSCRIT REPRODUIT
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 5 septembre 2012

Il y a deux ans le Catholicosat de Cilicie a reproduit l’original du
manuscrit du livre de messe ” Nareg ” ecrit en 1173 par St Gregoire de
Nareg en Cilicie. Ce projet a ete patronne par M. Kapriel Chemberdjian.

En declarant la creation du fonds, le Catholicos Aram 1er a dit ”
Nareg est le deuxième livre après la Sainte Bible que chaque famille
armenienne a a la maison. J’encourage nos fidèles a avoir cette
version speciale comme part essentielle de leur famille “.

Le revenu de la vente des manuscrits sera consacre au seminaire.

From: A. Papazian

TURKEY SAYS UNFAIRLY TARGETED BY ARMENIANS OVER AZERBAIJANI OFFICER PARDONING

Today’s Zaman
Sept 6 2012
Turkey

Turkey has complained about what it said “unfair targeting” by Armenian
diaspora groups in the United States in the case of pardoning of an
Azerbaijani military officer.

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said in a statement
that Ankara is astonished in watching the accusations by the Armenian
diaspora.

The tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan rose sharply last week
after Hungary repatriated convicted Azerbaijani military officer
Ramil Safarov, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the
2004 axe murder of Armenian Lt. Gurgen Makarian while both were in
Hungary on a NATO language-training course.

Hungary said Azerbaijan promised that Safarov would serve his sentence
in a local prison, but he received a presidential pardon hours after
returning and later was promoted from lieutenant to major.

Unal said Turkey is not part of the process in any stage and that these
“groundless” efforts is a new black propaganda of “ill-intentioned
circles.”

The Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and some adjacent territory
have been under the control of Armenian troops and local ethnic
Armenian forces since a 1994 cease-fire ended a six-year war that
killed an estimated 30,000 people and drove about 1 million from
their homes.

An outraged Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan broke diplomatic
relations with Hungary and said Armenia was willing to resume fighting
against Azerbaijan.

During his trial in Budapest, Safarov claimed that the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict was at the root of his actions and that he killed Markarian
while the victim was sleeping after the Armenian repeatedly provoked
and ridiculed him.

From: A. Papazian

KARABAKH TALKS COULD BE SUSPENDED – ARMENIAN ANALYST

Interfax
Sept 4 2012
Russia

Talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh problem will be frozen now that Hungary has extradited
the Azeri killer of Armenian officer, Ramil Safarov, to Baku, said
Armenian political analyst Ovanes Nikogosian.

“The talks will be suspended. It is clear that Armenia will not deal
with the Azeri leadership in this situation, and the Armenian president
made it understood in his message to the diplomatic corps in Yerevan,”
he told Interfax.

In the current setting, the co-chairs of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe’s Minsk Group must make maximum effort to
settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he said.

“No change of leadership is likely to occur in Azerbaijan in the
foreseeable future. Therefore, the co-chairs of the Minsk Group
must demonstrate maximum skills and professionalism to negotiate an
acceptable framework and bring the parties back to the negotiating
table,” he also said.

Sharp tensions on the engagement line between Armenian and Azeri troops
are hardly possible, although the Armenian and the Nagorno-Karabakh
armed forces have been alerted and are in a state of readiness,
Nikogosian said.

“I think the settlement of the current crisis will be moved to
international courts, possibly to the European Court of Human Rights.

Armenia’s legal arguments against Azerbaijan and Hungary are quite
serious and strong,” he said.

Hungary extradited Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov to Baku on August
31. Senior Lieutenant Safarov murdered Armenian army lieutenant Gurgen
Margarian in 2004 in Budapest, where both had been attending an English
language course as part of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

Safarov killed Margarian with an axe in his sleep, reportedly in a fit
of rage at the Armenian officer’s alleged insulting of the Azeri flag.

The day Safarov was extradited he was pardoned by Azeri President
Ilham Aliyev.

On August 31 Yerevan said it was severing diplomatic relations with
Budapest in connection with Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandian said earlier on Tuesday
that Yerevan does not intend to suspend talks with Azerbaijan on
Karabakh.

The Minsk Group co-chairs are Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the
United States, Igor Popov of Russia and Jacques Faure of France. The
OSCE chairperson-in-office’s personal representative is Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA LEADER: BURNING HUNGARIAN FLAGS IN PROTESTING KILLER’S REPATRIATION WRONG

Interfax
Sept 4 2012
Russia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has urged fellow citizens and
ethnic Armenians abroad not to burn Hungarian flags in protesting
last week’s pardon by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev of an Azeri army
officer who had been imprisoned in Hungary for savagely murdering an
Armenian officer but was sent back to Azerbaijan.

“I appeal to our public, especially youth, and ask them not to burn
the flag of Hungary because it is not the flag of the ruling party of
Hungary or a symbol of the prime minister of that country. An inhuman
act on the part of one person or one party must not make us an enemy
of the Hungarian people,” Sargsyan told reporters during a visit to
Armenia’s Shirak region.

Sargsyan said the Armenians had maintained friendly relations with
the Hungarians for centuries.

“Of course, one may protest, but we must remain true to ourselves
and our values,” he said.

He also said Armenia is working on the aftermath of the scandal.

“This work will be consistent, sober-minded and circumspect. Every
move will be appropriate, both as regards our relations with our
partners and as regards international structures,” he said.

Sr. Lt. Ramil Safarov, an Azeri army officer, murdered Armenian army
lieutenant Gurgen Margarian in 2004 in Budapest, where both had been
attending an English language course as part of NATO’s Partnership
for Peace program.

Safarov hacked Margarian to death with an axe in his sleep.

Safarov was 26 and Margarian 25 at that time.

In 2006, a Budapest court gave Safarov a life sentence without the
right to appeal for release for the first 30 years of his term.

On Friday, Hungary returned Safarov to Azerbaijan. The same day,
President Aliyev pardoned him and Defense Minister Safar Abiyev had
a meeting with him, promoting him to major, giving him keys to a new
apartment and giving him back pay for eight and a half years.

Armenia announced on August 31 that it was severing its diplomatic
relations with Hungary.

From: A. Papazian

AZERBAIJAN DEFENDS PARDON OF MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING ARMENIAN OFFICER

Interfax
Sept 3 2012
Russia

Azerbaijan argued on Monday that its pardon of an Azeri army officer
who was repatriated after being convicted in Hungary of murdering an
Armenian officer “should be seen in inseparable connection with the
occupation of Azeri lands by Armenia.”

At a meeting in Paris on Monday with the co-chairs of the Minsk Group,
a body appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe to mediate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia
and Azerbaijan, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov “pointed out
that the Ramil Safarov issue should be seen in inseparable connection
with the occupation of Azeri lands by Armenia,” Azeri Foreign Ministry
spokesman Elman Abdullayev told a briefing.

“The minister urged the co-chairs to put all their efforts into
the elimination of the fact of occupation of the Azeri lands,”
Abdullayev said.

He said all Azeri embassies abroad would ask the governments of the
countries they are posted in to take them under stronger protection
because of alleged threats from local ethnic Armenians.

Ramil Safarov, an Azeri army officer with the rank of senior
lieutenant, murdered Armenian army lieutenant Gurgen Margarian in
2004 in Budapest, where both had been attending an English language
course as part of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

Safarov killed Margarian with an axe in his sleep, reportedly in a fit
of rage at the Armenian officer’s alleged insulting of the Azeri flag.

In 2006, a Budapest court gave Safarov a life sentence without the
right to appeal for pardon for the first 30 years of his term.

On Friday, Hungary returned Safarov to Azerbaijan. The same day, Azeri
President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him and Defense Minister Safar Abiyev
had a meeting with him, promoting him to major, giving him keys to
a new apartment and returning him his pay for eight and a half years.

Safarov’s repatriation and pardon sparked an outrage in Armenia. The
country announced on Friday that it was severing its diplomatic
relations with Hungary, which argued that its extradition move was
based on the Council of Europe’s 1983 Convention on the Transfer of
Sentenced Persons and presented Azerbaijan with a note protesting
Safarov’s pardon.

Azeri Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said Safarov’s
repatriation was “a matter of relations between Azerbaijan and
Hungary that stays within the limits of law and does not contradict
any standards or principles of international law.”

The Minsk Group co-chairs are Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the
United States, Igor Popov of Russia and Jacques Faure of France. The
OSCE chairperson-in-office’s personal representative is Ambassador
Andrzej Kasprzyk.

From: A. Papazian

AZERI EMBASSY IN BUDAPEST UNDER TIGHTER SECURITY OVER OFFICER’S EXTRADITION – DIPLOMAT

Interfax
Sept 3 2012
Russia

Hungarian authorities have tightened security measures for the Azeri
Embassy in Baku after an Azeri army officer who was convicted in
Hungary of murdering an Armenian was extradited to Azerbaijan and
pardoned there.

On February 19, 2004, Senior Lt. Ramil Safarov axed Armenian army
lieutenant Gurgen Markarian in his sleep in Budapest in a fit of rage.

Both officers had been attending an English language course in Hungary
under NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

On April 13, 2006, a Budapest court gave Safarov a life sentence
without the right to appeal for pardon for the first 30 years of
his term.

On August 31, 2012, Hungary extradited Safarov to Azerbaijan. The same
day, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him, and Defense Minister
Safar Abiyev had a meeting with him at which he promoted the officer
to major, gave him keys to a new apartment and returned him his pay
for eight and a half years.

Safarov’s extradition and pardon sparked outrage in Armenia, which
suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary. Hungary presented
Azerbaijan with a note protesting the convict’s pardon.

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian said Azerbaijan “flagrantly
breaches international laws, international conventions and agreements.”

The Hungarian Justice Ministry said Safarov’s repatriation was based
on the European Convention on Extradition.

The United States demanded explanations from Hungary. U.S. National
Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor expressed concern over
Safarov’s pardon.

Hungarian authorities “feel the probability of some excesses,” the
Azeri ambassador in Budapest, Vilayat Guliyev, told Azeri television
company ANS by phone. “I don’t think there are any big problems,
everything is under control.”

Guliyev said he had discussed the Safarov issue “in a routine way”
during a meeting with the Hungarian prime minister’s spokesman, Peter
Szijjarto. The ambassador said other bilateral issues were raised as
well at the meeting.

The Hungarian protest note “isn’t anything extraordinary,” the
diplomat said.

“I believe that this issue is off the agenda,” he said.

Guliyev said protests from ethnic Armenian communities abroad had been
fruitless. “They wanted to hold a rally before the parliament building,
which had been sanctioned by the Hungarian authorities, but they were
unable to get more than 20 people together for the event,” he said.

From: A. Papazian