Armenian President urges world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan

 President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has urged the world community not to be too much "politically correct" with respect to Azerbaijan as this encourages the Azeri authorities to act impudently and to take steps like the pardon of murderer Ramil Safarov.

During a joint press-conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday Sargsyan said that Armenia had repeatedly warned its partners that the one-sided wordings used in official documents and public statements did not reflect the true content of the Nagorno- Karabakh peace talks and were very dangerous - mostly because they supported the destructive and impudent position of Azerbaijan.

"I am sure that the key cause of Azerbaijan's recent action was that very 'political correctness'," Sargsyan said.

He said that he was shocked to see how they in Azerbaijan were glorifying an assassin. "This is undermining NATO's Partnership for Peace efforts and is shattering peace and stability in the South Caucasus. In this situation nobody has the right to be silent or indifferent," the Armenian President said.

He said that Armenia is ready to enlarge and deepen its partnership with NATO and he is sure that NATO gives high priority to its relations with its partners.

"The PfP framework document says that the efforts to strengthen the basic human rights and freedoms, to ensure liberty and justice and to establish peace through democracy are crucial for the partnership. We have witnessed a gross violation of these norms, but we must not allow this to overshadow our partnership with NATO," the Armenian President said.

He said that Ramil Safarov's act was an infringement on a person's right to live, so, his pardon was a challenge to all reasonable
people.

Sargsyan believes that what the Azeri authorities did was in fact not pardoning Safarov but rather justifying his outrageous crime. "No
normal country has ever awarded a pardoned person. This crime must be generally condemned. The step of the Hungarian Government was simply unacceptable. It could not but know that they in Azerbaijan regarded Safarov as a hero and could not be foresee that he would be set free, especially as we had said that many a time," the Armenian President said.