Hungary Should Recognize Independence of NKR Now

Hungary has been posturing and providing words of regret ever since it released Azeri Axe murderer Safarov. However, Hungary’s moment of words is over and it is now time for action to prove to the International community and to Armenia that it is not complicit with Azerbaijan in promoting terrorist acts against Armenians.

Hungary should recognize NKR now and right the terrible wrong it committed.

Indeed, Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan made a statement on Safarov’s extradition, saying that “if Hungary’s official response makes it clear that Azerbaijan, indeed, reneged its vow and deceived Budapest, and that there was no criminal alliance, then the most appropriate countermeasure on Hungary’s part might be the NKR’s recognition”.

According to Kocharyan, there is so much hatred against Armenians in Azerbaijan that they have forgotten all about moral limits, so the order pardoning a murderer is the best proof of the validity of Karabakh people’s arguments demanding independence.