THE HAGUE: Azerbaijan asked the UN’s top court on Monday to throw out a case brought by its Caucasus neighbour Armenia accusing it of ethnic cleansing and violating a UN anti-discrimination treaty.
The case is part of the fallout from decades of confrontation between the countries, most pointedly over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan.
Baku’s forces recaptured the mountainous region in September after years of ethnic Armenian control, prompting most of its ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.
Armenia first filed the discrimination claim in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - also known as the World Court - two years before that in 2021, accusing Azerbaijan of breaching the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).