Hearings in Ukraine’s first case against Russia, in which the Russian Federation is accused of violating two UN conventions, began on June 6 and are due to end on June 14.
The majority of judges of the International Court of Justice decided to join 32 states in Ukraine’s lawsuit against Russia for violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This was reported by European Truth in connection with the press service of the court.
We are talking about the case of the Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention for the Suppression of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russia). Ukraine filed this lawsuit in 2017 and asserted that Russia violated relevant conventions by arming its “republic” puppet groups in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in its policy toward non-Russian ethnic groups in occupied Crimea .
By votes of fourteen judges of the UN ICJ against one, 26 member states of the European Union, except Hungary, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom, joined the claim of Ukraine at the stage of preliminary hearings.
Hearings in Ukraine’s first case against Russia, in which the Russian Federation is accused of violating two UN conventions, began on June 6 and are due to end on June 14, and a decision is likely to be made in late 2023. or early 2024.
It was previously reported that The Hague will receive information about the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
Source: korrespondent
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