PACE delegates reminded about Ramil Safarov
During its June 26 session, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided not to open a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary. After the resolution "Serious setbacks in the fields of the rule of law and human rights in Hungary" was put into circulation at the Assembly in January 2011, PACE's Monitoring Committee recommended to the Assembly to open a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary.
Swedish delegate Kerstin Lundgren yesterday presented a report on Hungary which caused a heated discussion among the European parliamentarians. In this context, she reminded about the extradition of Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov who had killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan during a 2004 NATO training event in Budapest.
In his turn, French delegate Francois Rochbloine said he did not imagine that there would be need to monitor the state of human rights and democracy in Hungary.
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