YEREVAN. – The Armenian community of Hungary plans to install a memorial plaque on the building where Gurgen Margaryan was killed 11 years ago, deputy chairman of the Armenian organization of Hungary Nikoghos Hakobyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

There is a khachkar in Budapest, and the Armenians and representatives of Hungarian NGOs honor memory of Gurgen Margaryan by bringing flowers to the khachkar, he said.

The organization has already addressed Hungary’s Defense Ministry with a request to install a memorial plaque on the building where Armenian soldier had been killed, and they are expecting the formal reply from the Ministry.

Ramil Safarov, a then-lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31, 2012 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society

And Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31, 2012 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.