From Monday, 15 April, through to Friday, 19 April 2024, took place in The Hague the hearings on the preliminary objections in the case Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discriminations (Armenia vs Azerbaijan) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The case concerns violations of a range of human rights against individuals of Armenian ethnic or national origin from the mid-1990s onwards, especially during the 44-day war in 2020 and subsequent events in Nagorno-Karabakh to date.
On Monday, 15 April 2024, Azerbaijan, in its first round of oral argument, challenged the jurisdiction of the ICJ and the admissibility of arguments raised by Armenia.
On Tuesday, 16 April 2024, the Counsel for Armenia, which included the Dean of the NKUA’s School of Law, Professor Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, and Dr Constantinos Salonidis, presented their argument. The full video with the pleadings of the Counsel for Armenia is available here. Professor Sicilianos’s pleadings start at 02:36:14.
The procedure continued with the second round of oral argument of the defendant. Armenia’s response followed on Friday, 19 April 2024. You may watch the pleadings of the Counsel for Armenia here. Professor Sicilianos’s pleadings start at 01:36:35.
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