Republican Party of Armenia

Eduard Sharmazanov, RA NA Deputy President, Co-Chair of Armenia-Lithuania Parliamentary Friendship Group, had a telephone talk with Algis Kašeta, Co-Chair of the Lithuanian side, highly appreciating the statement directed to the international community made by a group of deputies on granting pardon to Ramil Safarov by the President of Azerbaijan.

The deputies, who signed under the statement, among them, Algis Kašeta, Kęstutis Masiulis, Dalia Kuodyte, Dangutė Mikutiene, Petras Luomanas, have expressed their deep concern on granting pardon to Ramil Safarov by the President of Azerbaijan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the officer of the Armed Forces of Armenia Gurgen Margaryan by the Court of the First Instance of Budapest in April 2006.

The Group of the Seimas members has expressed conviction that granting pardon to R. Safarov may result in repetition of such crimes, it contradicts the international standards and may fail the peaceful settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

The NA Deputy President has noted in the telephone talk that the Lithuanian colleagues' adequate response is highly assessed in the RA National Assembly, by which they join the international community adherent to democratic and all-human values, and the latter condemned the Azerbaijani authorities’ illegal actions.