ArmInfo. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev made a phone call to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on February 8, thanking him for extraditing blog writer Alexander Lapshin to Baku, because the latter visited Nagorno-Karabakh.
APA reports that Ilham Aliyev extended gratitude to the Belarussian side and personally President Alexander Lukashenko for "demonstrating a fair position and taking a resolute step to extradite Alexander Lapshin, who was charged under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the country. President Ilham Aliyev described this step as compliance with the rule of law and international conventions, as well as a manifestation of friendly and strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Belarus".