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Russia FM is against Belarus extraditing Lapshin to Azerbaijan, for visiting Artsakh

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is against the possibility of well-known blogger Alexander Lapshin being extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan.

Russia FM is against Belarus extraditing Lapshin to Azerbaijan, for visiting Artsakh

Russia FM is against Belarus extraditing Lapshin to Azerbaijan, for visiting Artsakh

STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 17, ARTSAKHPRESS: “We are against criminalizing journalists’ or individuals’ visiting a territory,” Lavrov said at Tuesday’s press conference, as he reflected on Lapshin being detained in Belarus, reported the NEWSru.co.il news agency. “We are against the extradition of Russian Federation citizens.

“We have a union state with Belarus, and which envisions to coordinate the common visa and migration areas as well as to prepare single lists for persona non grata and grata, and to run a single extradition policy.”

The Russian FM also recalled that Russian diplomats conducted a consultation with Lapshin.

On December 15, 2016, Alexander Lapshin was detained in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, and based on Azerbaijan’s international search and extradition request, due to his visiting Nagorno-Karabakh.

 

The media report that the Belarusian authorities plan to extradite the well-known blogger to Azerbaijan.


     

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