Hungary’s Foreign Ministry refused to confirm a report suggesting the official Budapest considers suspending diplomatic ties with any country, the Ministry press service told PanARMENIAN.Net.

As Mediamax agency reported earlier, citing a source at OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, Budapest saw suspending relations with Azerbaijan as an option to overcome the difficult situation that has aroused after Hungary’s decision to transfer the murderer of Armenian officer to Baku where he was immediately pardoned and glorified.

As a Hungarian diplomat told his U.S. colleague over a working lunch, such a decision could become a symbolic message for recovering relations with Armenia.

Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani army officer who was serving a life sentence in Hungary for axing to death Armenian Lt. Gurgen Margaryan, was extradited to Azerbaijan and pardoned by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Official Yerevan reacted by suspending diplomatic ties with Hungary.

Hungary, however, states that it had sent Safarov back to Azerbaijan after receiving assurances from the Azerbaijani Justice Ministry that Safarov's sentence, which included the possibility of parole after 25 years, would be enforced.