RA NA deputy addresses pattern of behavior of  Hungarian authorities at  PACE session

ArmInfo. Hayk Mamijanyan, a member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE, addressed the behavior pattern of the Hungarian authorities during his speech at the organization's autumn session. The Armenian MP's remarks were made during a discussion of the report "Hungary's Fulfillment of its Council of Europe Commitments and Obligations as a Member."

"You all know  Armenian Army lieutenant  Gurgen Margaryan was murdered  with an axe while asleep by an during a Nato event in Hungary back in 2004. In 2012, he was extradited  to Azerbaijan, where he was pardoned, promoted and given an apartment. The reaction of the Secretary General of this Council of Europe was, and I quote: "Honoring a convicted murderer and transforming him into a hero is unacceptable."

Five years later, an investigation into the Azerbaijani money-laundering scheme uncovered and revealed that several bank transfers in 2012, totaling more than USD $9 million, were made to the Hungarian MKB Bank account in Budapest right around the time when the Hungarian government extradited Ramil SAFAROV to Azerbaijan. Still to this very day, there has been no official apology from the Hungarian authorities. They owe an apology to the Armenian people.

I began with the expression "pattern of behavior" on purpose. This year, when EU member states decided to allocate "non-lethal" military aid to Armenia from the European Peace Facility, Hungary vetoed the decision in the European Council. I would like to add that there are publications in the media that a few months before the Azerbaijani offensive, Budapest had already signed contracts to help the Azerbaijani authorities rebuild villages in Nagorno-Karabakh, " the RA National Assembly member noted.