World Court to hear Azerbaijan and Armenia objections to discrimination cases

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hear objections by Azerbaijan and Armenia in related cases in which the Caucasus neighbours accuse each other of violating a U.N. anti-discrimination treaty in April, the court announced on Friday, Reuters reports.

 

Armenia filed the case against Azerbaijan in 2021. Azerbaijan then filed a rival claim accusing Armenia of violating the same treaty. Now both states have filed legal objections to the other’s case which will be heard from April 15-16.

 

In November last year, the court issued emergency measures in Armenia’s case ordering Azerbaijan to let ethnic Armenians who fled the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave last September return.