Armenian ombudsman accuses Baku of putting pressure on Azeri officer’s trial
Noyan Tapan news agency, Yerevan
30 Nov 04
YEREVAN
The fact that the Azerbaijani side has invited the Hungarian
parliament commissioner for civil rights (ombudsman), Barnabas
Lenkovics, to meet the parents of Ramil Safarov, the murderer of
Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan, is an attempt to put psychological
pressure, Armenian ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan said in an interview
with our Noyan Tapan correspondent.
Thus, Mrs Alaverdyan stressed, the Azerbaijani side is continuing to
politicize issues, abusing the circumstance that Azerbaijan is the
host country of the 3rd international forum of European and CIS
ombudsmen. At the same time, she notes that the Hungarian ombudsman
will find it difficult to reject the proposal. “This testifies to the
low level of civilization, it is necessary to respect laws and
international norms of human rights,” the Armenian ombudsman stressed.
Pointing out that she has not received an invitation to the aforesaid
forum in Baku, Mrs Alaverdyan described “the crude technologies” of
Azerbaijani sources in covering the issue of her participation in the
Baku forum as “a base method of defiling the human rights sphere”.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress