Azerbaijan issues note to Hungary
Azerbaijan has delivered to Hungary a note which stated that military officer Ramil Safarov, who was extradited to his home country last week after serving part of his life sentence for killing an Armenian officer in Budapest in 2004, was released in accordance with Azerbaijani legislation and international norms, Foreign Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev said at a briefing on Thursday.
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.
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