YEREVAN, JULY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. Aghvan Hovsephian, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia, and Thomas Kovach, the Prosecutor General of Hungary, signed a memorandum of cooperation between the Prosecutor's Offices of the two countries. With this memorandum the sides, particularly, envisage to cooperate in preventing people trafficking and illegal migration. Aghvan Hovsephian mentioned that there has not been any legal-contractual documents signed between the systems of the prosecutor's office concerning cooperation so far: this memorandum is the first document of that kind, the preparation of which has a history of seven years. The RA Prosecutor General mentioned that this document will give an opportunity to make that cooperation more active. Aghvan Hovsephian congratulated his colleague on the occasion of conducting a complete, comprehensive, and objective investigation of the murder case of Gurgen Margarian, a military officer in the RA Armed Forces, in Budapest. "This is a bright example of the fact that any person, who has committed a crime, cannot evade a criminal responsibility," he said. Thomas Kovac mentioned in his turn that his country has been a member of the European Union since 2004 and that it is ready to pass its experience concentrated in this sphere to Armenia. In response to a correspondent's question of whether the extradition of Ramil Safarov, who killed G. Margarian with an axe, to Azerbaijan is possible, Thomas Kovac mentioned that there is not such an issue on the agenda at present, taking into consideration the fact that the case filed against R. Safarov for submitting the collaborator of the prison to violence is still underway.

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