YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The decision to transfer Ramil Safarov back to his home country, Azerbaijan, was a collective government one and all involved bear responsibility for it, Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi told lawmakers. As Armenpress reports citing Politics.hu, Martonyi, briefing the foreign affairs committee about repatriation of Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing an Armenian in Budapest in 2004, said Hungary ''willingly or unwillingly'' had got entangled in the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict on that date. Safarov, a soldier, had served eight years of a life sentence for killing the Armenian officer during a NATO language course. He was transferred from Hungary to Azerbaijan on August 31. On arrival in Baku, he was pardoned by Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and released. Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary later that day. Martonyi firmly rejected allegations that there had been any backdoor agreement concluded between Hungary and Azerbaijan. He said this would become apparent in the course of time. He said the Azeri authorities had made a clear commitment to continuing the murderer's prison sentence and the Hungarian government had taken its assurances at face value. ''Complete proof is impossible,'' he said. Rather, cooperation works on the basis of good faith, he said, adding that the Azeri side had reneged on the agreement. The Hungarian government's decision to repatriate Safarov had been ''painful'' and ''not easy'', he said, referring to long-standing good relations with Armenia and its minority community living in Hungary.