YEREVAN. – Deputy Chairman of Armenia-Belarus parliamentary friendship group Eduard Sharmazanov described extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin as a “dirty deal” adding that it was done against the interests of Armenia and Russia.

He is confident that the move contradicts the principle of peaceful settlement of Karabakh conflict, as well as high level of political relations between Russia and Belarus.

“None of democratic countries could accept this. Armenian spokesperson has already made a statement, I do not doubt that the MPs will also do. I personally do not see the need of talking to the Belarus colleagues, because our group is a friendship group, while the move of Belarus is, to put it mildly, not a friendly one. It is not a friendly move towards both Armenia and Russia, because Lapshin has Russian citizenship,” added Sharmazanov, deputy speaker of the Armenian parliameny.