Top stories
News about ICJ, Russia, and Ukraine genocide case
2 hours ago — But the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tossed out most of Ukraine's pleas, ruling only that Russia was “failing to take measures to ...
1 hour ago — ICJ Rejects Most of Ukraine's 'Funding Terrorism' Case Against Russia ... The International Court of Justice rejected most of Ukraine's case ...
1 hour ago — ... (ICJ) tossed out most of Ukraine's pleas, ruling only ... terrorist groups under the terms of the international convention on terrorism financing.
59 minutes ago — But the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tossed out most of Ukraine's ... international convention on terrorism financing (ICSFT). This "does ...
2 hours ago — In the same ruling, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Russia had breached an anti-discrimination treaty by failing ...
2 hours ago — The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected on Wednesday almost all of Ukraine's claims on Russia violating the International Convention ...
39 minutes ago — Ukraine had filed the lawsuit at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, in 2017, accusing Russia of violating an anti-terrorism treaty by ...
3 hours ago — The International Court of Justice issued a mixed ruling on Kyiv's terrorism-financing complaint ... Its lawyers had also urged the ICJ to reject ...
2 hours ago — ... terrorist groups under the terms of the international convention on terrorism financing. This “does not include the means used to commit ...
Uploaded: Jan 31, 2024
ICJ rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terrorism’ case against Russia
Kyiv had accused Moscow of being a ‘terrorist’ state and claimed it funded separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected much of a case filed by Ukraine that accused Russia of funding separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine a decade ago, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches.
Kyiv had accused Moscow of being a “terrorist state” whose support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was a harbinger of the full-fledged 2022 invasion.
KEEP READING
list of 3 itemsRussia lawmakers pass bill to confiscate assets of those who discredit army
Russia and Ukraine complete first prisoner exchange since plane crash
Is Zelenskyy planning to fire Ukraine’s popular top army commander?
Ukraine also wanted Russia to compensate all civilians caught up in the conflict, as well as victims from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
The top United Nations court declined to rule specifically on alleged Russian responsibility for the shooting down of the plane.
The ICJ tossed out most of Ukraine’s pleas, ruling only that Russia was “failing to take measures to investigate facts … regarding persons who have allegedly committed an offence”.
The top United Nations court declined to rule specifically on alleged Russian responsibility for the shooting down of the plane.
The ICJ tossed out most of Ukraine’s pleas, ruling only that Russia was “failing to take measures to investigate facts … regarding persons who have allegedly committed an offence”.
The court added that only cash transfers could be considered as support for alleged “terrorist” groups under the terms of the international convention on terrorism financing.
- This “does not include the means used to commit acts of terrorism, including weapons or training camps”, the court ruled on Wednesday.
- “Consequently, the alleged supply of weapons to various armed groups operating in Ukraine … fall outside the material scope of the ICSFT” convention, the ICJ said.
‘Russia trying to wipe us off the map’
Russia was also in the dock for alleged breaches of an international convention on racial discrimination due to its treatment of the Tatar minority and Ukrainian speakers in occupied Crimea.
Sign up for Al Jazeera
Weekly Newsletter
Here the court found that Russia had not taken sufficient measures to enable education in Ukrainian.
During hearings on the case, Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accused Ukraine of “blatant lies and false accusations … even to this court”.
The court’s judgements are final and without appeal but it has no way to enforce its rulings.
During hearings on the case, Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s ambassador to the Netherlands, accused Ukraine of “blatant lies and false accusations … even to this court”.
- Top Ukrainian diplomat Anton Korynevych retorted that Russia was trying to “wipe us off the map”.
- “Beginning in 2014, Russia illegally occupied Crimea and then engaged in a campaign of cultural erasure, taking aim at ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars,” said Korynevych.
The court’s judgements are final and without appeal but it has no way to enforce its rulings.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES
No comments:
Post a Comment