THE HAGUE: Armenia urged the United Nations prime court on Thursday to impose new interim orders on Azerbaijan to stop what the chief of Armenia’s authorized crew known as “ethnic cleansing” of the Nagorno-Karabakh area by Azerbaijan from changing into irreversible.
Armenia is asking judges at the International Court of Justice for 10 “provisional measures” aimed at protecting the rights of ethnic Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh area that Azerbaijan reclaimed final month following a swift navy operation.
In a 24-hour marketing campaign that started on Sept. 19, the Azerbaijani military routed the area’s undermanned and outgunned Armenian forces, forcing them to capitulate. The separatist authorities then agreed to disband itself by the top of the 12 months. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Nothing other than targeted and unequivocal provisional measures protecting the rights of ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will suffice to prevent the ethnic cleansing Azerbaijan is perpetrating from continuing and becoming irreversible,” the top of Armenia’s authorized crew, Yeghishe Kirakosyan, advised judges.
Lawyers for Azerbaijan are scheduled to reply Thursday afternoon. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has stated that the departure of Armenians was “their personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.”
After six years of separatist preventing led to 1994 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh got here underneath the management of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by Armenia.
Azerbaijan took again elements of the area within the south Caucasus Mountains throughout a six-week battle in 2020, together with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had claimed earlier. Nagorno-Karabakh was internationally acknowledged as half of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory.
The world court is at present contemplating two instances targeted on the deep-rooted tensions between the 2 international locations. Armenia filed a case in 2021 accusing Azerbaijan of breaching a global conference aimed at stopping racial discrimination. Per week later, Azerbaijan filed its personal case, accusing Armenia of contravening the identical conference.
The court has already issued so-called “provisional measure” rulings in each instances. The measures are meant to shield the rights of each nations and their nationals as their instances slowly progress by means of the world court.
Armenia on Thursday accused Azerbaijan of driving Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh even because the authorized wrangling continues.
Alison Macdonald, a lawyer for Armenia, stated court orders might stop Nagorno-Karabakh being “swallowed up” by Azerbaijan.
“It is still possible to change how this story unfolds,” she stated. “The ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh is happening as we speak. It must not be allowed to set in stone.”
Armenia is asking judges at the International Court of Justice for 10 “provisional measures” aimed at protecting the rights of ethnic Armenians from the Nagorno-Karabakh area that Azerbaijan reclaimed final month following a swift navy operation.
In a 24-hour marketing campaign that started on Sept. 19, the Azerbaijani military routed the area’s undermanned and outgunned Armenian forces, forcing them to capitulate. The separatist authorities then agreed to disband itself by the top of the 12 months. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Nothing other than targeted and unequivocal provisional measures protecting the rights of ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will suffice to prevent the ethnic cleansing Azerbaijan is perpetrating from continuing and becoming irreversible,” the top of Armenia’s authorized crew, Yeghishe Kirakosyan, advised judges.
Lawyers for Azerbaijan are scheduled to reply Thursday afternoon. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has stated that the departure of Armenians was “their personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.”
After six years of separatist preventing led to 1994 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh got here underneath the management of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by Armenia.
Azerbaijan took again elements of the area within the south Caucasus Mountains throughout a six-week battle in 2020, together with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had claimed earlier. Nagorno-Karabakh was internationally acknowledged as half of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory.
The world court is at present contemplating two instances targeted on the deep-rooted tensions between the 2 international locations. Armenia filed a case in 2021 accusing Azerbaijan of breaching a global conference aimed at stopping racial discrimination. Per week later, Azerbaijan filed its personal case, accusing Armenia of contravening the identical conference.
The court has already issued so-called “provisional measure” rulings in each instances. The measures are meant to shield the rights of each nations and their nationals as their instances slowly progress by means of the world court.
Armenia on Thursday accused Azerbaijan of driving Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh even because the authorized wrangling continues.
Alison Macdonald, a lawyer for Armenia, stated court orders might stop Nagorno-Karabakh being “swallowed up” by Azerbaijan.
“It is still possible to change how this story unfolds,” she stated. “The ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh is happening as we speak. It must not be allowed to set in stone.”
