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| Hearings on Kyiv's genocide lawsuit against Russia will begin in The Hague |
| 2023-09-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] On September 18, the International Court of Justice in The Hague will begin hearings on the claim of Ukraine against Russia for violation of the genocide convention in connection with the special operation. Court hearings are scheduled from September 18 to 27. A block of meetings is devoted to preliminary objections put forward by Russia. From the court materials it follows that on September 18, representatives of Russia will speak, and the next day Ukraine will give the floor. Other states will subsequently hear, including Germany, Australia, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Bulgaria, Canada and the Netherlands. As Regnum reported, the decision of the International Court of Justice to admit 32 countries to the proceedings between Ukraine and Russia under the Genocide Convention disappointed Moscow. All admitted countries take a pro-Ukrainian position, despite the fact that Kiev’s accusations are absurd, according to a statement published on June 10 on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. On February 26, 2022, Ukraine filed a lawsuit against Russia with the International Court of Justice regarding the implementation of the 1048 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. At the same time, Kiev denies the ongoing genocide in Donbass, because of which Russia had to launch a special military operation. Kyiv is also demanding that the court recognize that Russia has no legal grounds for action against Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the lawsuit based on “perverted logic” and emphasized that the collective West is abusing the norms of international justice. Among the countries that joined Ukraine's claim are mainly EU and NATO states. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba works for the public when he talks about complaints against Russia to the International Court of Justice. This was stated by the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the international organization Dmitry Polyansky . On June 1, Kuleba said that Ukraine had appealed to the International Court of Justice with another accusation against Russia. Allegedly, Moscow violated the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide against the backdrop of a special operation in Ukraine. However, he did not specify what kind of violation he was talking about. |
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