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Elkhan Suleymanov addresses European Parliament President

06 September 2012 13:51 (UTC +04:00)

According to APA, he drew their attention to the position of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Euronest-PA, with regard to the issue of Ramil Safarov.

The letter says: â€œFirstly, whereas this case may have raised some emotional reactions, it is obvious that from a legal point of view - being confirmed by all international authorities - the transfer of Ramil Safarov by Hungary to Azerbaijan was carried out under the â€œEuropean Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Personsâ€, to which both countries are signatories.

Secondly, Article 12 of the above-mentioned European Convention allows explicitly any member country to grant pardon, amnesty or commutation of the sentence in accordance with its Constitution or national legislation (in casu, the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Article 109.22).

Thus, the transfer procedure as well as the subsequent pardon is in full conformity with the European Convention and all international legal standards.

Whereas the Azerbaijani lieutenant Ramil Safarov spent eight years in prison, not one single Armenian was ever prosecuted for killing thousands of Azerbaijani civilians since twenty years. The international community never condemned this Armenian violence and even remained totally indifferent to any Azerbaijani complaint in this regard.

The debate on the Ramil Safarov case launched currently by Armenia in the international area has the only goal to consolidate the illegal Armenian presence in the occupied territories and to reject the demand of international organizations (UN, PACE, EP, OSCE, etc) to withdraw their armed forces unconditionally from these territories.

We note with regret that the incident of Ramil Safarov and the continuous killing of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenians are the results of the non- implementation by Armenia of the resolutions of the above mentioned international organizations.â€