The International Court of Justice, the UN’s highest judicial body, has announced that it may consider the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. “The Court finds that it has jurisdiction,” said ICC President Nawaf Salam today, reviewing the lawsuit filed by Baku that accuses Yerevan of “ethnic cleansing,” “hate speech” and “racist propaganda.” The court dispute at the ICC dates back to September 2021, when both sides filed lawsuits accusing each other of “ethnic cleansing”. The International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, issued its ruling on the two lawsuits today, saying it has jurisdiction to hear them. Armenia and Azerbaijan, former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, fought two wars, in the early 1990s and 2020, before Azerbaijani forces took full control of Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023, following a lightning military offensive that end of three decades of autonomy of this mountainous enclave inhabited mainly by Armenians. Tensions were high afterwards […]
Source: News Beast
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