Azeri President Ilham Aliyev greets Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko in 2014
Yerevan cancels official’s visit to Belarus; Russia Pledges to Pursue Lapshin Case as OSCE Voices ‘Dismay’
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry on Thursday insisted that its extradition of a Russian-Israeli blogger to Baku conformed to the Belarus’ as well as international law, as Armenia’s Prime Minister canceled a scheduled trip by an Armenian official to Minsk.
A Belarusian foreign ministry spokesperson, Dmitrly Mironchik, also rejected Armenia’s criticism of its country’s decision to extradite blogger Aleksander Lapshin, who was arrested in Minsk in December at the behest of Azerbaijan, which plans to press criminal charges against the blogger for visiting the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia parliament members on Wednesday called for Belarus to be dropped from the Collective Security Treaty Organization
“Calls for expulsion from the CSTO and the like are devoid of any legal grounds,â€
