Armenia doesn’t run the immediate danger of terrorist threat, according to Azeri studies expert.
As Sargis Asatryan noted at Yerevan-hosted news conference, Armenia is a monoethnic state, without religious or national minorities struggling for independence in the country.
However, Asatryan didn’t rule out the threat of localized terrorist acts, specifically the murder of Armenians abroad. “Azeri President Aliyev’s pardoning Ramil Safarov for axe-murdering Armenian officer was a message to repeat the crime,” the expert said.
Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani army officer who was serving a life sentence in Hungary for axing to death Armenian Lt. Gurgen Margaryan, was extradited to Azerbaijan and pardoned by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Official Yerevan reacted by suspending diplomatic ties with Hungary.
Hungary, however, states that it had sent Safarov back to Azerbaijan after receiving assurances from the Azerbaijani Justice Ministry that Safarov's sentence, which included the possibility of parole after 25 years, would be enforced.
According to some reports, Safarov was extradited to Azerbaijan in exchange for Azeri purchase of Hungarian securities worth Euro 2-3 billion, an information official Budapest denies.
