At UN court, Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of ethnic cleansing

THE HAGUE – Azerbaijan's lawman overseas curate accused Armenia of “ethnic cleansing” and continuing to laic landmines successful Nagorno-Karabakh adjacent aft a cease-fire ended a six-week warfare successful the disputed portion precocious past year, arsenic a 2nd lawsuit related to the struggle opened astatine the United Nations' apical court. Armenia denied the accusations.

Last week, the tribunal held hearings into a ailment brought by Armenia against Azerbaijan, besides related to past year's warfare that near much than 6,600 radical dead.

The "campaign of taste cleansing and incitement to unit against Azerbaijanis, is ongoing,” Elnur Mammadov told the International Court of Justice.

Azerbaijan is asking the satellite court's judges to bid Armenia to halt the laying of landmines, supply Azerbaijan with maps of minefields to assistance clearance efforts and to instrumentality measures to halt incitement by Armenian groups of radical hatred and unit against Azerbaijani citizens.

Ad

Armenian typical Yeghishe Kirakosyan urged the tribunal to cull the requests, calling Azerbaijan's lawsuit “an workout successful mendacious equivalencies. A maneuver engineered to make a fog of information, 1 designed to springiness the content that Azerbaijan is the existent victim."

Mammadov said that mines laid by Armenian forces during and since the warfare person killed oregon injured astatine slightest 106 Azerbaijanis, including 65 civilians, since the struggle was ended by a Russian-brokered bid deal.

“There is nary valid subject oregon different crushed for Armenia to proceed to people and terrorize Azerbaijanis successful this manner,” helium told the court.

Kirakosyan called the assertion that Armenian forces proceed to laic landmines baseless and told judges that “in the discourse of resolving each outstanding humanitarian issues, we basal acceptable to supply immoderate much maps successful our possession.”

Azerbaijan brought its lawsuit to the tribunal alleging that Armenia's actions breach an planetary normal to stamp retired radical discrimination. Armenia's abstracted lawsuit says that Azerbaijan's attraction of taste Armenians besides breaches the convention.

Ad

Both cases volition apt instrumentality years to scope a decision astatine the Hague-based court. The hearings successful caller days are focused connected some countries' requests for alleged provisional measures that the tribunal tin enforce successful bid to forestall acts that could impact the cases. Judges volition apt contented their decisions connected those requests successful coming weeks.

Both cases stem from a long-running territorial quality that boiled implicit into past year’s warfare implicit the Nagorno-Karabakh portion that 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.

The warring past twelvemonth ended erstwhile Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a cease-fire statement that granted Azerbaijan power implicit parts of Nagorno-Karabakh arsenic good arsenic adjacent territories occupied by Armenians.

Last week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of inciting taste hatred and called connected Baku to merchandise prisoners from the war. Lawyers for Azerbaijan denied the claims and said Armenian forces inactive being held person been prosecuted oregon are being prosecuted for superior crimes.

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This worldly whitethorn not beryllium published, broadcast, rewritten oregon redistributed without permission.