Relations between Azerbaijan and Hungary continue to develop as before and the note presented by the Hungarian Foreign Ministry to Azerbaijan on Ramil Safarov’s case has not effected bilateral relations, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Hungary Vilayat Guliyev said in Baku on Friday.
“Despite [Armenian terrorist organisation] ASALA’s threats, the Azerbaijani Embassy continues to operate as normal, but with enhanced security measures,” he said at a meeting of heads of diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan.
As evidence of good relations, Guliyev brought up the meeting of the intergovernmental committee scheduled for October in Budapest.
The ambassador said that the Azerbaijani embassy continued to receive threatening letters which he said had been transmitted to the Hungarian authorities for investigation, Azeri news website Trend reported.
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Armenia decided to break diplomatic ties on August 31 after Hungary had transferred Azerbaijani national Ramil Sahib Safarov to his home country to continue serving his sentence of life imprisonment which he received in February 2004 for murdering an Armenian in Budapest.
On September 2 Foreign State Secretary Zsolt Nemeth summoned Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Hungary into his office to hand over a diplomatic note and inform him that Hungary considered Safari’s release unacceptable.