Azerbaijan’s FM opposes politicization of Lapshin’s case

By  Trend

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs deems it wrong to politicize the criminal case against Alexander Lapshin, a citizen of several countries who was extradited to Baku, over the illegal visit to the occupied Azerbaijani territories, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

This issue is of legal nature and must be reviewed from a legal standpoint, according to the statement.

Alexander Lapshin, who has illegally visited the occupied Azerbaijani territories and entered into criminal conspiracy with Armenians living in the occupied territories, was extradited to Baku.

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.