Belarus stems from the fact that Armenia is a friendly country for it, the statements of the Armenian deputies made against the backdrop of Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin’s extradition to Azerbaijan being “merely emotions.”

Spokesperson for the Belarusian MFA, Dmitry Mironchik, told the aforementioned to RIA Novosti.

“Belarus and Armenia are friendly countries and partners in integration unions, including the CSTO. Thus, the statements, made in the Armenian parliament—if there were such—were merely emotions,” Mironchik said.

He also added that he is “unaware of facts on unbalanced or–all the more so– offensive assessments by Belarusian parliamentarians in connection with specific foreign policy steps of Armenia.” “Although there have been occasions for presenting a “recriminatory bill,” he said.

Moreover, the Spokesperson stressed that Belarus is “conducting multi-vector friendly policy, strictly following the international norms and implementing its legal obligations, as is the practice in all legitimate democratic states.”

After his visits to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2011 and 2012, Alexander Lapshin was “blacklisted” by Azerbaijan. In June 2016, however, he paid a visit to Azerbaijan, but with a Ukrainian passport. Subsequently, he issued several articles criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities. Afterward, the Azerbaijani authorities issued an international search for this famous blogger. And on December 15, 2016, he was detained in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, and based on this international search.

On January 26, the Minsk city court dismissed the complaint of blogger Alexander Lapshin over the decision of the Belarusian prosecutor’s office to extradite him to Azerbaijan. 

The Supreme Court of Belarus on Tuesday dismissed the complaints filed in the case of blogger Alexander Lapshin.

According to the experts and human rights defenders, Lapshin’s case may become a horrible precedent limiting the freedom of speech of foreigners and freedom of movement of Armenian citizens.

Blogger Alexander Lapshin was brought to Baku Tuesday evening.