Aliyev thanks Lukashenko for "fair" decision on extradition of Lapshin
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".