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Hungarian MPs support Azerbaijan's decision on the pardon of military officer Ramil Safarov -- who was extradited to his home country last week after serving part of his life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenian officer in Budapest in 2004, two of the country's lawmakers said at a meeting with Azerbaijani Ambassador Vilayat Guliyev, the Azerbaijani embassy said.

Marton Dyondoshi, deputy chairman of parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, who met with Ambassador Guliyev along with MP from Jobbik party in the Hungarian parliament Tamas Heqedus, said most of the people who protested in Budapest over the decision of the Hungarian authorities to extradite the Azerbaijani officer do not know about the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the occupation of Azerbaijani lands and the real reasons for the killing of the Armenian officer by Safarov.

Dyondoshi said the leaders of political parties are trying to use such protests to their advantage. The MP added that he tried to clarify the issue in his interviews with Hungarian media.

Ramil Safarov hails from Jabrayil, one of Azerbaijan's regions that are under Armenian occupation. Safarov, 35, who participated in NATO exercises in Hungary, was charged with the murder of the Armenian officer, Gurgen Margaryan, who insulted the Azerbaijani flag, and was handed down a life sentence by a Budapest court. Safarov was extradited to his home country last Friday and on the same day he was pardoned by President Ilham Aliyev.