Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations on December 1 following a 10-year break resulting from Budapest’s controversial extradition to Azerbaijan of a murderer of an Armenian soldier.
In February, a Hungarian delegation visited Armenia and announced a cooperation program with a primary school named after the murdered Armenian soldier. “In order to keep Gurgen Margaryan’s memory alive in Hungary and to prevent such crimes in the future we specifically chose to cooperate with the school named after him,” said István Csere, the director of a primary school in Budapest that partnered with the Armenian school.
All of that appeared to pave the way for a restoration of ties. “Last year, we saw that step by Hungary that resulted in five captives being returned to Armenia. After that, we saw some other steps, support was provided to the school named after Gurgen Margaryan, and coronavirus vaccines were donated to Armenia,” Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannisyan told a parliamentary hearing on November 3.
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