BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. Azerbaijan took under consideration the selections of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) dated November 12, 2024 on the preliminary objections raised by Azerbaijan and Armenia within the case relating to the Implementation of the Worldwide Conference on the Elimination of All Types of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Ministry of International Ministry of Azerbaijan stated,
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“The Worldwide Court docket of Justice has issued a ruling on Azerbaijan's ongoing worldwide authorized claims towards Armenia relating to widespread human rights violations towards Azerbaijanis.
For many years, Azerbaijan has sought to carry Armenia accountable for its systematic ethnic cleaning of greater than 1,000,000 Azerbaijanis. These efforts haven’t been in useless: the ethnic cleaning of Armenia and different misconduct throughout the many years of occupation of the internationally acknowledged territory of Azerbaijan will now be examined intimately by the Court docket on the deserves stage.
Furthermore, the Court docket rightly rejected Armenia's try and exclude claims associated to Armenia's apply of laying landmines and hearth traps. It’s critical to make sure justice for the victims of Armenia's landmine menace, a quantity that tragically continues to develop to at the present time. By November 10, one other Azerbaijani citizen was injured by a landmine explosion.
Concentrating on civilian areas with landmines is a provocation that not solely endangers the lives of harmless civilians, however threatens the peace settlement that Azerbaijan stays dedicated to reaching.
With respect to Azerbaijan's preliminary objections, the Court docket has considerably reserved all evaluation of the information and proof relating to Armenia's spurious claims of racial discrimination on the deserves stage. Azerbaijan is satisfied that the proof reviewed by it would present that no violation of worldwide regulation has been dedicated.
Importantly, this isn’t the one authorized avenue that Azerbaijan is pursuing towards Armenia. Azerbaijan can be in search of compensation and monetary compensation for Armenia's violations of worldwide regulation in a number of different areas, together with the destruction of the atmosphere and vitality infrastructure throughout the occupation, in different worldwide authorized boards.
“We are going to proceed efforts to carry Armenia accountable for the quite a few violations of worldwide human rights throughout the many years of occupation of the internationally acknowledged territory of Azerbaijan and associated conflicts,” the assertion stated.