ArmInfo.Belarusian Ambassador to Armenia Igor Nazaruk urged to refrain from hasty conclusions related to Minsk court decision on extradition of Russian blog writer Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno Karabakh. "Haste makes waste", the Belarusian diplomat told journalists on January 25 on the sidelines of Armenian-Belarusian business meeting.
According to Nazaruk it is wrong to expect relevant assessment from the embassy of Belarus in Armenia urging to discuss this topic with those structures, who are aware of it. "The Embassy does not possess the information, you expect from me. Armenia has General Prosecutor's Office and other agencies, which can solve this issue in cooperation with their Belarusian partners. There is nothing easier than buying a ticket to Misnk and solving all the issues at once not spreading them", the diplomat stated.
The Ambassador also noted that proceeding issues related to this or that procedure are very sensitive and one should not forget about secrecy of investigation.
To remind, on January 20 General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus fulfilled request of Azerbaijan's General Prosecutor's Office on extradition of Russian and Israeli citizen famous blog writer Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan. In the middle of December the citizen of the Russian Federation Alexander Lapshin has been arrested in the Republic of Belarus with the purpose of extradition on the demand of Azerbaijan for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh and making notes about those visitations in his blog. Lapshin is included in Azerbaijan's black list for visiting Karabakh and he was forbidden to enter Azerbaijan. However, in June 2015 Lapshin arrived in Azerbaijan via Georgia with his Ukrainian passport. After that Azerbaijan put him on wanted list for violation of the law on state border and migration code of the country.
To note, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated at the annual press conference in Moscow, commenting the detention of Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin in Minsk due to Azerbaijan's request for his visit to Nagorno Karabakh. "Russia is against criminalization of journalists or simply private persons visiting any region", he said. "Second, we are against extradition of Russian nationals arrested in any country, to third countries. We had consular contact with Lapshin, we know that he is also an Israeli citizen and Israeli diplomats had contact with him as well. We will take all the steps to solve this situation within the respect to all the rights of Russian citizen, which is also an Israeli citizen," Lavrov accentuated.