Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

PARDONING OF AZERI AXE MURDERER RAISES TENSIONS IN THE CAUCASUS
Email Simon Tisdall

guardian.co.uk
Thursday 6 September 2012 18.34 BST

Case of army lieutenant who killed and all but decapitated an Armenian
soldier has inflamed public opinion

Official US criticism of abuses by the government of Azeri president
Ilham Aliyev is relatively muted. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty
Images The spectre of war in the Caucasus rose again this week
following the pardoning by Azerbaijan of a convicted axe murderer
who killed and all but decapitated an Armenian soldier while he
slept. The White House, Russia, the EU and the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe all moved to diplomatic battle
stations as the Armenian president, Serzh Sargsyan, furiously warned:
“We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win.”

The case of Ramil Safarov, an Azeri army lieutenant who was jailed
in Hungary in 2004 for the murder of Gurgen Margaryan during a Nato
Partnership for Peace course that they both attended, has inflamed
public opinion in Azerbaijan and Armenia. The two countries have a
history of hostilities that includes a war over the Nagorno-Karabakh
enclave that killed 30,000 people between 1988 and 1994. The dispute
remains unresolved and this summer there was a sharp escalation in
border skirmishes.

The alarm in Washington and Moscow at the latest confrontation is
rooted in political and strategic considerations.

Thanks to the efforts of former US vice-president Dick Cheney, among
others, Azerbaijan has become a major oil supplier to the west in
recent years. US and British companies including ExxonMobil and BP
have invested an estimated $35bn in its oil and natural gas fields
and the country’s importance has grown during the turmoil engendered
elsewhere by the Arab spring.

Nato, meanwhile, uses Azeri airfields to resupply Afghanistan.

Azerbaijan’s military spending, financed by oil sales, is expected
to reach $3.6bn this year.

Pro-western, pro-business Azerbaijan’s location on the Caspian basin
has also made it a key player in the Obama administration’s undeclared
war on Iran.

Official US criticism of long-standing civil, electoral and human
rights abuses by the government of President Ilham Aliyev is relatively
muted. In return for its discretion, Washington is said to be rewarded
with intelligence-sharing and other Iran-related favours.

Up to 20 million ethnic Azeris live in north-western Iran and some
Azeri politicians refer to the area as “South Azerbaijan”. For CIA
schemers intent on destabilising the Tehran regime, the potential
for subterfuge is vast.

The Israel-Azerbaijan relationship is even more remarkable. The two
countries have steadily expanded military ties: Baku spent $1.6bn on
Israeli weapons in February.

Then in March Azerbaijan arrested 22 people allegedly involved
in an Iranian plot to assassinate American and Israeli diplomats,
and Aliyev claims Azerbaijan is neutral in the dispute over Iran’s
nuclear programme, which Israel believes threatens its existence. But
Iran-Azerbaijan relations are in deep freeze amid a public war
of words.

Less wealthy Armenia also has strategic significance and powerful
backers. Russia is a major weapons supplier, maintains military bases
within reach of Armenia’s border with Nato member Turkey, and oversees
the country’s air defences. Russian military flights increased sharply
this year as Azeri-Armenian tensions rose, according to Interfax.

It was announced in June that Russia would double its personnel at its
Gyumri base, whose lease has been extended until 2044. Gyumri is home
to Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles and Mikoyan MiG-29 fighters.

Iran also takes Armenia’s side in opposition to Azerbaijan – while
just to complicate matters further, so too does the influential
Armenian-American diaspora, which knows how to put pressure on the
White House.

Small surprise, then, that the feting of the axe murderer Safarov
when he returned to Baku, his subsequent promotion, the awarding
to him of eight years’ back pay – and Armenia’s furious reaction –
have caused ripples of alarm at the highest levels. Armenia broke off
diplomatic relations with hapless Hungary for letting him go, Barack
Obama expressed deep concern about it all, the Kremlin chastised both
Hungary and Azerbaijan, demonstrators took to the streets of Yerevan
and an Armenian opposition party demanded formal recognition of the
independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan claimed in turn that
Armenia’s reaction was “hysterical” and that President Sargsyan had
secretly ordered the assassination of Safarov.

International diplomatic efforts to pull the two sides back from the
brink appear to have worked so far, but more by luck than judgment.

The Safarov affair is not over yet. And it is a sobering reminder
that the so-called “frozen conflicts” left over from the Cold War
can and will re-ignite with appalling speed if ignored for long enough.

In point of fact, the dispute has not been wholly ignored. The
so-called Minsk group of countries has been trying to resolve it for
years. In June, the US, Russian and French presidents issued a joint
statement calling for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
dispute. “Military force will not resolve the conflict and would
only prolong the suffering and hardships endured by the peoples of
the region for too long,” they said. That is indubitably true. What
they did not admit is their own part in the problem.

From: Baghdasarian

VARDAN VOSKANYAN: CURRENT BAKU ADMINISTRATION BEHAVES LIKE PROVINCIAL WHO BECAME RICH BY ACCIDENT

Panorama.am
06/09/2012

Panorama.am has contacted Vardan Voskanyan, Associate Professor of
the Chair of Iranian Studies of Yerevan State University, for comment
on recent remarks by the Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan.

– Mister Voskanyan, recently Azeri media actively spread a statement
by Inayatullah Kakar calling Safarov “hero of the entire Muslim
world.” How do you comment on this?

– Firstly, judging by the information of Azeri media, the statement
does not express the views of Islamabad – it was merely the personal
opinion of the Ambassador. Secondly, be it in the West or in Muslim
East, Ramil Safarov’s act can only be described as a foul murder.

Cynical statements about his alleged heroism, even within the Muslim
world, are nothing else but the result of morbid imagination of
separate politically committed figures, who naturally have neither
powers nor rights to speak on behalf of all Muslims.

Also, it is noteworthy that in Pakistan itself, to all appearances,
certain public and political circles have absolutely different
opinion. On the same day when, as quoted by Azeri media, Inayatullah
Kakar made such a statement, Pakistan’s English-language newspaper
Pakistan Today published an article on the extradition and pardon of
Ramil Safarov, calling him an “axe killer” as well as widely quoting
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

– What could be the reason behind such a statement by a representative
of a country where too many people have no idea about Azerbaijan as
a state?

– There could be different theories. It’s no secret that current Baku
administration, dizzy by oil revenues, even in the European arena
behaves like a provincial who became rich by accident, trying to solve
its problems not intellectually and by everyday laborious task but
through bribery. According to estimates of international experts,
Pakistan is among the countries which have the most corrupt system
of government.

However, it is also likely that Azeri media ascribed to Pakistan’s
Ambassador the words written by themselves or distorted his words,
especially as all Azeri media without exception distorted the
Ambassador’s name. This cannot be ruled out, especially as the latest
stupid propaganda fraud – “letter from ASALA” – was fabricated on
the same provincial level, within Aliyev agitprop.

From: Baghdasarian

ARF HOSTS COMMUNITY MEETING WITH ORGANIZATIONS IN ORANGE COUNTY
by Ara Khachatourian

asbarez
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Organizations gather at the invitation of the local Orange County ARF

The ARF “Armen Karo” Gomideh invited its sister organizations in
Orange County to a community wide meeting to discuss plans for the
upcoming fiscal year.

More than 50 executive members attended and actively participated as
the ARF outlined its agenda and expectations for the coming months.

Representatives from the following executive boards were present:
ANCA-OC, ARS “Karni,” ARS “Sevan,” AYF “Ashod Yergat,” Forty Martyrs
Church, Ari Guiragos Minassian (AGM) School, Hamazkayin “Siamanto,”
and Homenetmen “Srdarabad.” Also present were AGM School Principal,
AYF Advisors, and ARF “Serop Aghpiur” Badanegan Advisor.

The meeting began with welcoming remarks by the ARF “Armen Karo”
Chairman, after which each representative introduced themselves and
their organization. The ARF explained its agenda for the continued
reorganization and strengthening of its community structures
in order to more effectively continue our national struggle. The
Gomideh stressed the importance of being inclusive and reaching out
to all segments of the Armenian American community in Orange County,
to actively engage, serve, and include them in community life and to
secure their participation on national issues. Within this context,
the ARF explained that the main focus will be to support and encourage
the youth to take on more responsibilities and eventually become
the leaders of the community. Initially this will involve the AYF,
Badanees, and ANC, and will branch out to other organizations such
as the UCI ASA, other youth groups, and Armenian youth in general.

Also discussed were the methods of communication between and amongst
the organizations, coordination of efforts and scheduling events via
a master calendar, as well as the creation of an all encompassing
mailing list which will be available to all.

The ARF “Armen Karo” Gomideh also announced the creation of
the Armenian Community Center Management, which will include a
representative from ARS “Karni,” ARS “Sevan,” AYF “Ashod Yergat.”

Hamazkayin “Siamanto,” and Homenetmen “Sardarabad” chapters.

Finally, the Gomideh addressed two important national issues. First, it
emphasized the importance of securing aid for the Armenian community
in Syria during the ongoing crisis there, and explained that the
ARS has taken the lead on this project, and all should contribute
and support. Secondly, it explained the need to increase the number
of registered voters to make our collective voice heard on issues
of importance to Armenian Americans, and to have an impact during
elections. Talar Malakian, Chair of ANCA-OC, presented information
about the “Hye Votes” campaign organized by the ANCA Western Region
to do just that, and enlisted the participation of the organizations.

Each organization also gave a brief presentation regarding their
ongoing projects and plans for the coming months.

The attendees thanked the ARF “Armen Karo” Gomideh for organizing the
meeting and making sure that the community is all on the same page
and working together. They expressed that they now truly feel like
they are an important part of the larger ARF family in Orange County,
and asked for future meetings.

The Gomideh stated that a second meeting will take place in early
2013, during which there will be a presentation on Turkish and Azeri
organizations working in Orange County, and a discussion topic on
increasing youth involvement in the community. Invites will also
be sent to other segments of the Armenian American community in OC,
including but not limited to St. Mary Armenian Church, UCI ASA, AGBU,
and OCAPS.

Coming Events in Orange County Every Friday Night: Family Dinner at
Armenian Center

September 9, 2012: Hamazkayin Ani Dance Group at Huntington Beach High
School 5 p.m., organized by Armenian Center & Sister Organizations,
and Asbarez.

September 16, 2012: Luncheon at Armenian Center after Church to
benefit Armenian Community in Syria, organized by ARS “Sevan”

September 22, 2012: Casino Night at Armenian Center, organized by
Homenetmen “Sardarabad”

October 14, 2012: Book Fair at Armenian Center after Church, organized
by AGM

October 21, 2012: Anjar Dinner at Armenian Center 5 PM, organized
by Hamazkayin

From: Baghdasarian

VILNIUS HOLDS PROTEST ACTION ON AZERBAIJANI MURDERER’S EXTRADITION AND RELEASE (PHOTO)

news.am
September 06, 2012 | 20:30

VILNIUS. – A protest action was held in front of the Hungarian
Embassy in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday in connection
with the extradition and granting a pardon to Azerbaijani murderer
Ramil Safarov. The photo coverage of the story is available here.

Representatives of the Armenian communities gathered in front of the
Hungarian Embassy in Vilnius, holding the Armenian flag and posters
that read ‘Nation like its Hero,’ ‘Justice for Sale,’ ‘Shame on
Hungary,’ the Armenian News-NEWS.am special correspondent reports.

The event was widely covered by the local media, including national
public TV. Following the action at the Hungarian Embassy, the
participants moved to the Azerbaijani Embassy where also held the
protest action.

From: Baghdasarian

NKR PRESIDENT’S INAUGURATION TO BE HELD FRIDAY

news.am
September 06, 2012 | 12:12

STEPANAKERT. – Reelected Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) President
Bako Sahakyan’s inauguration ceremony will be held on Friday.

With the decision by NKR National Assembly (NA) Speaker, NA will
convene a special session Friday devoted to NKR President’s induction
into office, NKR NA press service informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Following the session, NKR Defense Army will hold a military parade
in connection with the President’s inauguration.

To note, Bako Sahakyan paid a visit to NKR Central Electoral
Commission, where he was handed the NKR President’s credential.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, NKR presidential elections
were held on July 19. As a result, incumbent President received 66.7
percent (47,095) of the votes, NKR NA MP Vitali Balasanyan received
32.5 percent (22,966), and Deputy Director Arkadi Soghomonyan of
Academic Activities at the NKR capital Stepanakert Branch of State
Agrarian University of Armenia received 0.8 percent (594) of the
ballots cast. The voter turnout was at 73.43 percent.

From: Baghdasarian

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: AZERBAIJANI GOVERNMENT SENDS DANGEROUS MESSAGE ON ETHNICALLY-MOTIVATED VIOLENCE

armradio.am
06.09.2012 18:17

Amnesty International is concerned that the actions of the Azerbaijani
government following the extradition of Armed Forces Lieutenant Ramil
Safarov will be perceived as an endorsement of ethnically-motivated
violence.

The organization is concerned that these actions will ignite existing
tensions between Azerbaijanis and Armenians and encourage further
ethnically-motivated violence. It called on the governments of both
countries to publicly condemn violence based on ethnicity.

“Safarov, who by his own admission all but decapitated another man
in part because he was Armenian, was pardoned and then promoted to
Major by President Aliyev following his release from prison on Friday.

By pardoning and then promoting Ramil Safarov, President Aliyev has
signaled to Azerbaijanis that violence against Armenians is not only
acceptable, but rewarded.

The Azerbaijani government should rescind any privileges awarded to
Safarov and publicly condemn ethnic violence. The Armenian government
must also make clear that retaliation against ethnic Azerbaijanis is
not acceptable,” the Amnesty International said in a statement.

Safarov was sentenced to life in prison by a Budapest Court in 2006
for murdering Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan.

The two were attending a NATO English language course in Hungary
in February 2004 when Safarov broke into Margaryan’s dormitory and
attacked him with an axe as he slept, inflicting 16 blows to the head
and neck which almost severed Margaryan’s head.

Safarov admitted to the murder, claiming that Margaryan had insulted
his country’s flag. The court found no evidence to support this claim.

He said he was sorry he had not had the opportunity to kill any
Armenians earlier.

On Friday 31 August, the Hungarian government allowed Safarov to be
extradited back to Azerbaijan, claiming to have received assurances
that he would serve the remainder of his sentence.

On his arrival in Baku, Safarov was pardoned, promoted to Major,
given back pay for the eight years he had spent in prison and awarded
a house.

From: Baghdasarian

SAFAROV’S PARDON WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO KARABAKH SETTLEMENT – NATO SECRETARY GENERAL (PHOTOS)

news.am
September 06, 2012 | 12:57

YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan granted pardon to Ramil Safarov, who committed
a brutal murder, and this should not be glorified, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
stated Thursday, while addressing the students and faculty at Yerevan
State University (YSU), and noted that he is deeply concerned over
this development (PHOTOS).

In NATO Secretary General’s words, the granting of pardon will not
contribute to peaceful settlement of the relations between Armenia
and Azerbaijan.

“The conflict between the two countries must not resume, the tension
must be weakened and not escalated. The Caucasus region is endowed
with great possibilities. Armenia has great resources, NATO assists
Armenia in building peace and stability in the region because Armenia
deserves it. Some people think this is impossible, but we must achieve
it,” Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

To note, around 200-300 youth had held a demonstration Thursday,
in front of YSUCentralBuilding, to protest NATO Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s visit to Armenia and YSU.

The young people held banners protesting Hungary’s extradition of
Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan and his being pardoned there, Armenian
News-NEWS.am reporter informed from YSU.

Aside from banners, the young protesters also held Gurgen Margaryan’s
picture as well as his killer, Ramil Safarov’s photograph with a red
cross on it.

And upon NATO Secretary General’s arrival at YSU, the youth chanted
“Justice!” while Anders Fogh Rasmussen saluted them and entered
the University.

While in Yerevan the NATO Secretary General will meet with President
Serzh Sargsyan, FM Edward Nalbandian, and Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant
in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary,
where he was serving a life sentence-and with no expression of
either regret or remorse-for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian
lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership
for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was
his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s
government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani
president immediately granted him a pardon.

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that
Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.

From: Baghdasarian

500 YEARS: A CELEBRATION OF INK AND PAPER AND GLUE
by Chris Bohjalian

September 6, 2012

Special Issue: Celebrating 500 Years of Armenian Printing The Armenian
Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012 (Download article in PDF)

No one is ever going to confuse the Madenataran with the local
neighborhood bookstore. It sits on a hill in downtown Yerevan, a
massive, 122-thousand-square-foot block of marble and basalt, its
entrance shielded by statues of Armenian mathematicians, historians,
theologians, and the creator of the Armenian alphabet, Saint Mesrob
Mashdots. As many readers of this newspaper know, it’s impressive
and regal and-unlike a lot of mid-20th-century Soviet architectural
behemoths-imposing and welcoming at once.

Bohjalian and Avdoyan exchange books. (Photo by Nareg Bostanian)
And yet the Madenataran is filled with nothing but books. It’s
Armenia’s Institute for Ancient Manuscripts, a museum of very-and I
mean very-old books. When I was in Armenia in May, it was the second
place I visited. (The first was the Armenian Genocide Memorial,
where, beside the eternal flame, I laid flowers in remembrance of our
ancestors who were killed in the genocide.) I don’t read Armenian and
I’m certainly no scholar when it comes to illuminated manuscripts,
but even now, well into the digital age, I am still drawn to the
paper book. Consequently, I spent an afternoon at the Madenataran
peering through glass at manuscripts and Bibles and books, some made
of parchment and some made of paper, some copied by hand, and some
printed by presses. I was dazzled.

This marks the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing. The first tome?

The Book of Fridays, a prayer book printed using red and black inks
in Venice in 1512. The second book published in Armenian? The Bible.

Fittingly, UNESCO has selected Yerevan its World Book Capital for
this year. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Levon Avdoyan prepared a
magnificent exhibition of Armenian manuscripts and books-and record
albums-at the Library of Congress to celebrate the Armenian literary
tradition. The exhibit, “To Know Wisdom and Tradition,” is a gem. I
went there, too. It runs through September 26.

The books in the Madenataran and on display at the Library of Congress
are eye candy for a reader. This is true whether you prefer books made
of pulp and ink or glue, or you’ve chosen instead an eReader. The
reality is that anyone who loves books understands that we have a
profound, totemic relationship with paper: to the book as an artifact.

In the library in my house in which I write, there are two walls
of books. There could easily be four, but the room is a corner that
once was a living room, and so there are also two walls of windows. I
can swivel in my chair and glance at the dust jacket of most of the
books on those shelves and tell you where I was when I first cracked
the book’s spine. Ian McEwan’s Atonement is the grass beneath a maple
tree outside a health and fitness club in Middlebury, Vt., the leaves
unfurling in the April sun; inside, my young daughter is in the midst
of one of her dance classes. Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep is the snack
bar at Smith College, where my wife went to school when we were merely
boyfriend and girlfriend, and the smell of the onions the cooks there
placed on the hamburgers. And Franz Werfel’s magisterial epic The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh is the wood-paneled living room of my childhood
home in Stamford, Conn., and my dawning awareness that there was more
to my Armenian grandparents’ lives as children and young adults than
they ever were likely to share. Knowing of my profound love for The
Forty Days of Musa Dagh and of books made of paper, the Christmas
before last, my wife found me a beautiful first edition of the novel.

The author (L) with Prof. Levon Avdoyan in front of the Library of
Congress exhibit poster (Photo by Nareg Bostanian) The truth is, a
book’s dust jacket or spine can instantly catapult us back in time. We
don’t merely recall the novel’s plot or a snippet of dialogue: We
remember who we were, where we were, and, perhaps, the state of our
lives when we first met Atticus Finch or Daisy Buchanan or Gabriel
Bagradian. A book is like music in that regard: It can resurrect
memories for us.

My new novel, The Sandcastle Girls, is set mostly in Turkey and Syria
in the midst of the Armenian Genocide in the First World War, but
there are a few moments in Yerevan. The novel is a love story, but
it is also the story of our diaspora-why of the 10 million Armenians
in this world, only 3 million live in Armenia today.

And the physical book itself-the paper and the ink and the cloth-is
beautiful. I’m not referring to the text or a single word I wrote. I’m
talking about the design. The type. The feel. Doubleday designed and
produced a physically alluring book. Raised lettering on the cover
and the spine. An elegant juxtaposition of gold and black. Deckle
edge pages. A cover image that is wistful and epic and, in my opinion,
captures perfectly the sensibility of the novel. This is my 15th book,
so I can be pretty jaded when my editor sends me a new one hot off
the presses. Been there, done that.

Nope. Not this time.

When a copy of The Sandcastle Girls first arrived at my house in
Vermont, I found myself holding it in my hands and recalling the day
I had written the book’s first sentence. And I thought of my recent
visit to the Madenataran, and the spectacular care that someone had
put into the production of each and every book and manuscript there.

No one planned to coincide the publication of The Sandcastle Girls
with the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing or the UNESCO selection
of Yerevan as the 2012 World Book Capital.

But this novel is the most personal and the most important book I’ve
written. Its arrival this year is a great, great gift.

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIA’S EX-FM HAILS POLITICAL PARTIES’ UNANIMOUS DECISION ON SAFAROV’S RELEASE

tert.am
06.09.12

Armenia’s ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan has hailed the
parliamentary parties’ unanimous approval of the statement condemning
the extradition and release of Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani army
lieutenant who was sentenced to life imprisonment for hacking Armenian
officer Gurgen Margaryan to death.

He has shared his observations on Facebook, praising the
parliamentarians’ calls for consolidation.

“Despite the disagreements over the contents, all the political
parties demonstrated solidarity and consolidation over this issue.

This is commendable,” the politician said in his public profile.

He has also addressed certain negative aspects, particularly the fact
that the lawmakers of the ruling Republican Party failed to admit
the authorities’ possible share of guilt.

“More than thirty speeches were made before the statement was adopted.

Though it was tiresome, I heard all of them. I was really interested
to know each individuals approach to, and perception of. the issue.

It was especially the ruling party that made calls for solidarity and
consolidation, but none of them had the courage to state, at least
implicitly, that their government probably also had had its share of
guilt for all this,” says Oskanyan, who now represents the Prosperous
Armenia party faction in the National Assembly.

He then expresses disappointment with FM Edward Nalbandyan’s speech,
considering his arguments on being cheated a very poor justification.

“I would like to let the foreign minister know that being cheated
is not a justification. That aggravates the responsibility for the
failure,” he says.

Considering the decision unacceptable for the Armenian nation,
Oskanyan calls for strong and persistent efforts to eliminate possible
consequences. He considers Safarov’s return to his prison cell and
the international recognition of Karabakh’s self-determination the
best legal and diplomatic solutions to the problem.

From: Baghdasarian

HUNGARY DOES NOT CARE SUSPENSION OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA, DEBATE

tert.am
06.09.12

Hungary will face serious issues in its further programs with NATO
and EU after it has extradited Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov,
member of Armenia’s ruling Republican party Vardan Ayvazyan told the
reporters on Thursday.

While deputy head of Free Democrats party Anush Sedrakyan believes
Hungary does not care whether Armenia has suspended diplomatic
relations or not.

Referring to the National Assembly’s statement on the extradition,
pardon of Ramil Safarov, Anush Sedrakyan said what happened is a good
occasion for Armenia to raise Hungary’s issue and forward the issue
on the status of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in the international
organizations.

From: Baghdasarian