32 countries joined the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia in the UN court

The majority of the judges of the International Court of Justice of the United Nations (UNIC) decided to join 32 states to the lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia because of the violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Read more about the edition Ukrainian Truth.

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Of the 15 judges, this decision was supported by 14. The lawsuit was joined by 26 member states of the European Union, except for Hungary, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom.

At the same time, the court unanimously denied the United States joining the Ukrainian lawsuit against Russia at the stage of preliminary objections of the parties.

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Hearings on the first lawsuit of Ukraine against Russia, where the Russian Federation is accused of violating two UN conventions, began on June 6 and will end on June 14. Accordingly, a decision could potentially be made at the end of 2023 - at the beginning of 2024.

Now the court must decide whether it has the authority to open the main court session, writes DW.

Ukraine filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice on Russia's violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on February 26, 2022. The Russian Federation did not participate in the meeting on March 7, 2022. On March 16, the International Court of Justice, in a ruling on provisional measures, ordered Russia to immediately cease hostilities against Ukraine.

Meanwhile, another lawsuit from Ukraine against Russia is pending in the UN court, related to Russia’s probable violation of two international conventions - on the fight against the financing of terrorism and the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. Ukraine filed this lawsuit back in 2017.

In it, Ukraine proves that Russia violated the relevant conventions by arming the armed groups of its puppet "republics" in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and by its policy towards non-Russian ethnic groups in the occupied Crimea.

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In April 2017, the UN ICJ issued an interim decision obliging Russia not to limit the ability of Crimean Tatars to maintain their representative institutions, including the Mejlis, and to ensure the availability of education in the Ukrainian language.

In November 2019, the UN ICJ rejected all of Russia's arguments about the jurisdiction of the court and the admissibility of the case, which was a complete victory for Ukraine at that stage of the consideration.

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