Armenia to submit application-communication to UN refer to Safarov extradition

YEREVAN, MARCH 1, ARMENPRESS: The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia has initiated to submit an application- communication to UN Committee on the Elimination of RacialDiscrimination(CERD) refer to Azerbaijani discriminative attitude against Armenians. The extradition of Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijani authorities, as well as all the incidents and cases where discriminative attitude is manifested against Armenians are included in the application.

''UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(CERD) has been operating since 1965 based on the Convention of elimination of all types of discrimination. The Republic of Armenia has been guided by 11 provision of the Convention. The article enables chance to the states to submit interstate complaints to the Committee, where one of the stakeholder state considers the other has infringed the other state's rights'' Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Armenia's Deputy Minister of Justice told the reporters.

As Armenpress reports, a working group was established in the end of the previous year by the instruction of the President of the Republic of Armenia to deal with the international pardon of Ramil Safarov.

On February 19, 2004, Lieutenant of the Armenian Armed Forces Gurgen Margaryan, was hacked to death, while asleep, by a fellow Azerbaijani participant, lieutenant Ramil Safarov, in Budapest during a three-month English language course in the framework of Partnership for Peace NATO-sponsored program. Hungarian authorities despite the fact Hungarian court had sentenced Ramil Safarov to a life imprisonment with no right to be pardoned in 30 years time extradited the criminal on August 31, 2012. The assassin was not mainly released in Homeland but granted a mayor title. Armenia suspended relations with Hungary.sentence dated April 13, 2006. Ramil Safarov was life imprisoned for murdering the Armenian officer.

Many international and local organizations, political forces and politicians have come forth with condemnation statements. Hungary has already declared readiness to restore the diplomatic relations with Armenia.