Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 9
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
The story of blogger Alexander Lapshin will be a lesson for others not to visit the occupied Azerbaijani territories without Baku’s permission, Kazakh expert Askar Kumyran said.
The expert added that the story will show that it is necessary to respect Azerbaijan’s laws.
"By the way, such flogging could be also arranged for some Kazakh citizens, cinema fans and journalists who visit Nagorno-Karabakh region without notifying Baku," Kumyran wrote on his page in the social networks.
The expert recalled that in violation of international law, Lapshin visited the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia, by supporting the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“Afterwards, he visited Baku and began to write offensive posts that he had insulted the whole country and will avoid punishment,” Kumyran added.
"As a result, Lapshin was declared internationally wanted on the initiative of Azerbaijan,” he said. “The blogger was detained in Belarus. Despite moaning and groaning Russian blogosphere, Belarusians observed the norms of the international law and extradited the provocateur to Azerbaijan."
Alexander Lapshin is a citizen of several countries and has had a criminal conspiracy with Armenians living in the occupied Azerbaijani territories. He also illegally visited these territories.
Lapshin is accused of violating Azerbaijani laws on state border in April 2011 and October 2012.
In order to promote the illegal regime created in the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia, Lapshin presented Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh as an “independent state” on his social media account, and supporting the “independence” of the unrecognized regime he made public incitements aimed at violating Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity on April 6 and June 29, 2016.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.