The extradition of “Ramil Safarov” phenomenon, a former and present army officer of Azerbaijan has recently been one of the most sensational issues of the international mass media. While the whole world criticizes Azerbaijan and Hungary for threatening the regional security the formers refer to some sort of international conventions trying to justify their outrageous deal. It seems as if the international community has no clue about the existing conventions and the “political duo” is trying to make some “discoveries” as for Armenia, as well as for the World in general. Anyway, there is no need to dwell into the analysis of the act being right or wrong as the international attitude is certain and unanimous: there isn’t perhaps a single prestigious newspaper, journal or a news agency in the world that hasn’t yet condemned Azerbaijan and Hungary for their “humanistic” activity. But the point is that Azerbaijan is constantly messing its things up with inexplicable announcements of their officials.
Studying the announcement of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan in response to the US State Department criticism on the above-mentioned scandal, we find a very interesting excerpt. They say that in accordance with Article 57.3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan the punishment of a convict who is serving a life sentence can be replaced by court with an imprisonment up till twenty five years of imprisonment, and as Ramil Safarov already served for 8.5 years in Hungary, the decision of the President to pardon Safarov should be regarded as an imprisonment for as long as he already served in Hungary.
I guess there is no doubt that this announcement is an expression of an obvious cynicism on an official level, but calling stupidity the things preceding these steps will be too merciful for Azerbaijan.
Le’s for a moment accept the above-mentioned “arguments” of the administration and understand one simple fact. According to this announcement Azerbaijan in fact regards Safarov as a convict and sentences him to 8.5 years. They of course pardon him immediately, but in any case they do sentence that “person” to 8.5 years. Then let’s try to answer several attention-grabbing questions. Is there any state in the world that compensates the salary of a convict, or is there a country that dares to promote criminal-lieutenants to the rank of major, or perhaps is there a country that hand over apartments to the criminals after they serve their term? In the end let’s face it, is there a more “democratic”, “humanistic” or “CIVILIZED” country than Azerbaijan?
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Sometimes it’s quite hard to understand the Azerbaijani logic nevertheless some circumstances occasionally cover the lack of their governance. The Azerbaijanis have no yet formed their ethno genesis but we demand and expect capability of a serious governance (ruling is a better option in their case). It’s hard to imagine the consequences of the initiated madness, but one thing is clear: Azerbaijan won’t go through this mess smoothly, because there isn’t a single state that supports this cynical trade between the Azerbaijani Khanate and the European, EU-member Hungary.
P.S. Even Turkey stays aloof of the current developments keeping in mind a universal principle: “Never go near the drowning ship, it will drown you too”.
Erik Yeritsyan
