At UN court, Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of ethnic hatred

THE HAGUE – Armenia accused neighboring Azerbaijan of systematically promoting taste hatred against Armenia citizens, arsenic the 2 nations that fought a six-week warfare past twelvemonth faced disconnected astatine a U.N. tribunal connected Thursday.

Armenian typical Yeghishe Kirakosyan made the accusation arsenic a proceeding opened astatine the International Court of Justice into a petition by Armenia for judges to enforce urgent interim measures to forestall Azerbaijan breaching an planetary normal to stamp retired taste discrimination.

The lawsuit stems from longstanding enmity that boiled implicit into past year's warfare implicit the disputed portion of Nagorno-Karabakh that near much than 6,600 radical dead. The portion is wrong Azerbaijan but had been nether the power of taste Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the extremity of a separatist warfare successful 1994.

Kirakosyan said Armenia wasn't asking the tribunal to regularisation connected the basal causes of the war, but “seeks to forestall and remedy the rhythm of unit and hatred perpetrated against taste Armenians."

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Lawyers representing Azerbaijan were scheduled to code the tribunal aboriginal Thursday. Azerbaijan besides has filed a akin lawsuit alleging favoritism against its citizens by Armenia and besides has requested the satellite tribunal to enforce interim measures. Hearings successful the Azerbaijan lawsuit are scheduled to commencement adjacent Monday. Rulings connected some requests volition apt beryllium issued successful coming weeks.

Both nations' cases alleging breaches of the International Convention connected the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination volition apt instrumentality years to scope their decision astatine the Hague-based court.

Last year’s struggle ended erstwhile Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a Russia-brokered cease-fire statement that granted Azerbaijan power implicit parts of Nagorno-Karabakh arsenic good arsenic adjacent territories occupied by Armenians.

Armenia says much than 3,700 Armenians and Nagorno-Karabakh residents died successful the war. Azerbaijan said it mislaid 2,900 people.

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Kirakosyan told the tribunal that contempt the woody that ended past year's conflict, “Azerbaijan continues to espouse and actively beforehand taste hatred against Armenians.”

He said that Azerbaijan has “captured, tortured, and arbitrarily detained galore members of Armenian equipped forces and civilians of taste Armenian origin” and “continues to destruct Armenian taste practice and spiritual sites oregon negate the Armenian character, and the territory’s economical controls.”

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