Anton Korynevych, Envoye for War Trials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said the first day of the Ukraine v. Russia hearing in the Hague had a very good start. This was reported by the European Pravda.
“This is the first case of Ukraine against Russia in international courts, which has reached the level of consideration of the case on the merits. So this is really very important. Today we have made a very good start. I think our facts, international law, the arguments that we use prove the strength of our position”,- Anton Korynevych said.
Oksana Zolotariova, deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation, noted that the court’s decision would be at least 100-150 pages.
“The key here is that we hear the case on the merits. After hearings on the merits, the next stage is the making of a decision”,- said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
We remind 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.
On June 6, public hearings on the case Ukraine v. Russia began, which will be held at the International Court of Justice.