Axe-murderer Ramil Safarov put Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Minister at risk of resignation

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Because of the axe-murderer Ramil Safarov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov is currently at risk of resignation. This was reported by fraza.ru, news website, as informed by Armenpress.

According to the website, because of Ramil Safarov’s scandal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan got the strict outrage of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev for being categorically against the extradition of the assassin Ramil Safarov from Hungary to Azerbaijan and giving him a “national hero”. Elmar Mamedyarov warned the Azerbaijani authorities that the extradition and release of the perpetrator, sentenced to life imprisonement, would make an irrevocable impact on the Azerbaijan’s international authority and the negotiations process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. According to the Ukrainian website, “In Azerbaijan they have already talked that Mamedyarov might be substituted by his first deputy Hafiz Pashayev”.

On February 19 2004 in Budapest Azerbaijani assassin Ramil Safarov, who axe-murdered Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan while sleeping, when they were participating in NATO English Language Courses in the capital of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment without right to be pardoned for 30 years. On August 31 2012 Safarov was extradited from Hungary to Azerbaijan and was pardoned by the President Ilham Aliyev. The murderer was advanced to mayor, provided with an apartment and given «national hero» and compensated for the 8 years of the imprisonment in Hungary. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary. The extradition, pardoning and release of Safarov were condemned by many countries and authoritative organizations of the world.