US Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, responded on Wednesday to the transfer and release of Ramil Safarov.

Norway shares concern of OSCE MG co-chairs regarding extradition and pardoning of the Azerbaijani killer Ramil Safarov, the statement of Foreign Ministry of Norway says.

Chairman of the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees Milan Cabrnoch has expressed his deep concern about the Azerbaijani President's decision to pardon Ramil Safarov, who was supposed to serve a life sentence for brutally murdering Gurgen Margaryan, an Armenian military officer, in Hungary in 2004.

Armenia is successfully developing cooperation with both the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and NATO as they are not conflicting structures, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during a joint press-conference with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday.

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.

Extradition of Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov and Azerbaijani president's decision to pardon the murderer hinder confidence building between Armenia and Azerbaijan, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a joint press conference with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Thursday in Yerevan.

Lithuania is interested in stability of the South Caucasus, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronis Azubalis said at the Ministerial Meeting of Nordic Baltic Eight, NBB in Vilnius, when commenting on extradition of Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov and Yerevan's protests against that.

In connection with the extradition and presidential pardon for Ramil Safarov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Vassily Atajanyan addressed a letter to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore.

Turkey was not involved in any phase of recent tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal said on Wednesday.

Armenian public organizations of Estonia have appealed to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary in Estonia Mr. Erik Haupt with an open letter demanding apologies by the Hungarian Government to the family of the murdered Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan and the Armenian people.