Armenian community in talks with Hungarian authorities over officer’s murder

Arminfo
28 Aug 04

YEREVAN

The [Armenian] diaspora has no right to interfere in the trial on the
murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan in the Hungarian capital,
the head of the Armenian Nation Union in Hungary, Eduard Badalyan,
said today at a ceremony of opening a memorial to Armenian and
Hungarian soldiers killed in Hungary during World War II.

He said that despite great interest in a just court ruling, the
diaspora cannot interfere in trials in European countries. “Hungary
has more than once stated that the trial will be fair and the criminal
will get his just deserts,” Badalyan said.

Despite the ban on interference in trials, the Armenian community of
Hungary is holding negotiations with Hungary’s relevant bodies, trying
to help the litigation. Badalyan said that there are about 600 ethnic
Armenians in Hungary according to the latest census held in this
country.

To recap, Markaryan was hacked to death by Azerbaijani officer Ramil
Safarov who was attending a NATO seminar in Budapest in February this
year.