Public hearings on the case Ukraine v. Russia have begun, which will be held at the International Court of Justice. It is reported by Ukrinform.
Today, June 6, the Ukrainian side will have a word in the court.
Anton Korynevych, Ambassador from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has been appointed the head of the delegation.
We remind you that on January 16, 2017, Ukraine started a case against the Russian Federation in the International Court of Justice. Kyiv accuses Moscow of numerous and systematic violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In April 2017, the International Court of Justice decided to apply provisional measures against the actions of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea. In September 2018, the Russian Federation submitted objections to the International Court of Arbitration regarding the jurisdiction of the tribunal. On June 3, 2019, the International Court of Justice began to consider the objections of the Russian Federation regarding the jurisdiction of the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case.
Later, the International Court of Justice published a Ukrainian memorandum documenting the violation by the Russian Federation of the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The document, along with data from other Ukrainian human rights organizations, includes materials collected by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
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