Armenia expects definite actions from Hungary. No need for negotiator

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS: Armenia considers that there is no need for a negotiator in relations with Hungary. Press secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tigran Balayan, commenting on the suggestion of Switzerland, which Hungary has accepted, mentioned ,,there is no need for umpire, we need definite actions from Hungarian authorities” reports Armenpress.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi declared on September 5 that it was ''extremely regrettable, unacceptable and condemnable'' that the government of Azerbaijan had not kept its promise not to release Ramil Safarov, an Azeri officer who received a life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenian soldier” reports Armenpress citing politics.hu. Hungarian Foreign Affair’s Minister highlighted that they had acted within the international norms that their action had nothing to do with economic context.

Speaking about his visit to Switzerland Janos Martonyi noted that his colleague Dider Burkhalter had offered his country’s help in the settlement of relations between Hungary and Armenia.

Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary on August 31 when life-sentenced perpetrator Ramil Safarov was extradited and pardoned in Azerbaijani. Safarov hacked to death Armenian serviceman Gurgen Margaryan during NATO’s training in Budapest.