Azerbaijan urges top UN court to toss out Armenian case alleging racial discrimination
Release time：2024-04-30 01:55:04 Source：World Wanderer news portal
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for Azerbaijan on Monday urged the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, arguing that judges do not have jurisdiction.
Armenia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2021, accusing Azerbaijan of a “state-sponsored policy of Armenian hatred” that has led to “systemic discrimination, mass killings, torture and other abuse.”
The legal dispute stems from long-standing tensions that erupted into a 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh that left more than 6,600 people dead. The region is within Azerbaijan, but had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994.
Armenia’s case is based on an international convention on stamping out racial discrimination, which has a clause allowing disputes to be resolved by the world court if bilateral negotiations fail to broker a settlement.
- Previous：Why college kids are abandoning Ivy Leagues to go to Southern schools
- Next：Xi, Biden hold phone talks
Related articles
- Hong Kong Disneyland to launch world's first 'Frozen'
- Two in custody after armed police swarm Auckland suburb
- Poppies to be replaced as Dannevirke RSA announces it won't be putting them on graves
- War a real threat and Europe not ready, warns Poland's PM
- Blue economy roundtable held in China's Hainan
- New Zealand to put 'every single effort' into getting free trade deal with India
- Major sewerage line threatened by slip on Hutt River cliff
- Coronavirus: Experts say the flu is more 'deadly'
- Kimmich heads Bayern past Arsenal, into UCL semis
- US: China strengthens Russian war machine with surging equipment sales
- Oklahoma towns hard hit by tornadoes begin long cleanup after 4 killed in weekend storms
- Baltimore bridge collapse: two fathers named among victims
- Auckland lodge fire: Caravan user forced to stick to one set of clothes
- Christchurch Adventure Park to reopen on Friday, 22 March
- High hopes on tourism boom as Thailand cheers Chinese tourists' return
- Staff shortages holding up prison improvements
- China lifting lockdown of Hubei province
- Free lunch scheme has made 'huge difference' for Wainuiomata school
- Prince Harry and Meghan to visit Nigeria in May for Invictus Games talks
- Coronavirus: People with blood type A 'more vulnerable' to COVID
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by Azerbaijan urges top UN court to toss out Armenian case alleging racial discrimination ,World Wanderer news portal sitemap