Armenia, Hungary in Diplomatic Fallout

Armenia has severed diplomatic ties with Hungary after that country released the killer of an Armenian military officer. Street protests have erupted in Yerevan. Armenia’s armed forces are on heightened alert. In 2004, the Armenian officer, Gurgen Markaryan, was axed to death by an Azeri colleague, Ramil Safarov, as both were attending NATO English language courses in Budapest. In 2006, a Hungarian court sentenced the killer to life imprisonment without a possibility of parole. This Friday, however, Hungary turned him over to Azerbaijan, where he was immediately granted a presidential pardon. The Azeri authorities' spokesman Novruz Mamedov stated that Safarov "protected the honor of the country and the dignity of the nation." In Azerbaijan Safarov was promoted from lieutenant to major and paid the salary for the eight years he spent in  Hungarian prison.

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