Wednesday, February 8 2017 16:30

ArmInfo. In front of the Belarusian Embassy in Armenia a protest was held in the light of extradition of Russian-Israeli blog writer Alexander Lapshin to  Azerbaijan.  

"The extradition to the state, Armed Forces of are using  ISIS methods to wage a war, is a serious strike to the free speech  and movement. We condemn the actions of Belarus as well as Armenia's  Foreign Ministry's inactivity. What is doing the Armenian Ambassador  in Belarus? We think the Ambassador should be withdrawn as well as  the Belarusian Ambassador should leave Yerevan", said the  Parliamentarian, the opposition bloc "Elc" member Edmond Marukyan to  journalists in front of the Embassy. He also recalled that a lot of  people, including politicians, journalists, cultural figures visited  Nagorno-Karabakh, but this event is a precedent from the point of  view of chasing those who were in Artsakh.  In his turn, the  opposition Deputy Nicol Pashinyan, told the bloc's statement, "On  February 7, Minsk extradited the Russian-Israeli blog writer Lapshin,  to Bacu, where a criminal case is opened on the fact of "illegal"  visit to Nagorno Karabakh. In Bacu airport armed commandos wearing  masks, which had an obviously demonstrative line, accompanied Lapshin  as a dangerous criminal. "Elc" condemns the Belarusian Governments  actions, aimed at trampling on freedom of speech and movement of  citizens and finds the given action an insult to Armenian nation.  Moreover, the given action shows the formality of the alliance  between Armenia and Belarus in CSTO and EEU, and those relations can  not be a guaranty to Armenias security. "Elc" demands the Armenian  Authorities to withdraw its Ambassador and freeze the relations with  Belarus".  Pashinyan also criticized the work of the Foreign Ministry  of Armenia. He noted that the extradition of Lapshin is a slap in the  face of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Eduard Nalbandian  and Serzh Sargsyan. "If we do not want the Armenian nation to get a  slap as well, the Belarusian Ambassador should leave Armenia, and our  Ambassador, in his turn, should return home", Pashinyan noted. 

In front of the embassy of Belarus in Armenia gathered a few dozen  demonstrators who chanted "go", "free and sovereign Artsakh". None  came out to the demonstrators from the Embassy of Belarus, only  through <intercom" offered to put all the letters and offers in the  special embassy mailbox. 

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Belarus rejected the appeal of the Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin on the legality and validity of the decision of the Minsk City Court, which on January 26 this year upheld the decision of the Prosecutor General of Belarus to extradite him at the request of Baku. In the evening of the same day he was taken to Baku by special plane.