Armenia has insisted that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its case accusing Azerbaijan of breaching an international convention that aims to stamp out racial discrimination. Azerbaijan is urging the International Court of Justice to toss out for lack of jurisdiction the case Armenia filed in 2021.
FILE - Preliminary hearings opened in a case in which Armenia is asking judges at the United Nations ’ top court to order Azerbaijan to protect the rights of ethnic Armenia ns from the Nagorno-Karabakh region that was reclaimed last month by Azerbaijan , at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
Azerbaijan argued that Armenia could not bring the dispute to court because the two countries had not first engaged in serious negotiations to settle their differences. The country’s lawyers also told judges that most of the allegations in Armenia’s case fall outside the scope of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.
“Indeed, if proven, it is hard to imagine more flagrant breaches of the convention and of the values which it enshrines. So Armenia respectfully submits that these claims can and must proceed to the merits,” she added.
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