The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hear Russia’s objections in September in the process initiated by Ukraine shortly after the start of the invasion of their country by Moscow’s forces, on February 24, 2022.
Ukraine, which appealed to the UN’s highest court shortly after Russian forces began the offensive, accuses Russia of misusing accusations of genocide in eastern Ukraine to justify its invasion, and that it was the country itself. neighbor who planned a genocide.
In March 2022, ICJ judges urgently ordered Russia to suspend its ongoing military operations in Ukraine.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Hague-based court said it “will hold public hearings on the preliminary objections raised by the Russian Federation.”
Russia will present its objections on September 18 and Ukraine will develop its arguments the next day.
Two days later, 32 countries, all of them Western allies of Ukraine, will be able to intervene. In June, the ICJ authorized all 32 countries to intervene together with Ukraine in this case.
However, the court rejected the US request. The allies’ interventions focus mainly on the ICJ’s jurisdiction over the case; a judicial decision can take months or even years.
A second presentation of arguments will take place on September 25 and 27. Kiev accused Russia of referring to the UN convention on genocide when it said, at the start of the war, that it invaded Ukraine to end what it called genocide in the pro-Russian regions of eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has already avoided the hearings, saying in a written statement that the ICJ lacks jurisdiction in the case because kyiv’s claim falls outside the scope of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The ICJ order urging Russia to suspend its offensive was only a preliminary decision, pending a decision on whether it falls within its jurisdiction.
The ICJ was created after World War II to settle disputes between UN member states.
Your decisions are binding, but you have no means of enforcing them.
Source: TSF
