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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Azerbaijan: the case of Ramil Safarov2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120913.36.4-376-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrike Lunacek2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2013-02-04)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2012-01-19--2012-10-24)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as we have just been hearing, this urgent human rights matter relates to a case that mingles several levels. It involves the unresolved conflict and the current stalemate in the peace process on Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories, as well as an act of a brutal personal revenge in the form of a pre-meditated murder and the deplorable glorification of a murderer. It also involves the economic crisis in the new EU Member State and irresponsible acts by Heads of Government and State respectively. Let us start at the beginning. Mr Safarov, as we have heard, was transferred to Azerbaijan from Hungary long before his sentence was completed. The European Parliament strongly condemns that. He was granted a presidential pardon by President Aliyev there, and he has been honoured as a national hero and promoted to major in the Azeri military. All despite the fact that he has not repented of the brutal murder of an Armenian soldier that he committed in Budapest in 2004. I acknowledge the legitimate frustration in Azerbaijan about the lack of substantial progress in the peace process, but acts of brutal revenge, and turning murderers into national heroes, is an appalling way of reacting and risks further escalating – not just rhetorically – the ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Mr Schöpflin, Hungary has not played a merely marginal role in that. Let us look at Hungary. Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has a huge share of responsibility here. Just at the beginning of this week, he admitted that he himself gave way and said ‘yes’ to transferring Safarov back to Baku, that he ignored the warnings from his own administration, and that he himself – that is the interpretation – is responsible for heating up the conflict in the Caucuses. This brave admission gives rise to the interpretation that, following his recent visit to Baku, Mr Orbán knowingly and deliberately helped to pardon a murderer, and sacrificed diplomatic relations with Armenia for a highly questionable economic deal to help his own country out of the crisis. I hope our amendments on Hungary will also be put to the vote here, because we have to be critical both of the Azeri President and of the Hungarian Prime Minister."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Ulrike Lunacek,"1 "author."1
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