Watch: World Court holds hearings in tit-for-tat Armenia-Azerbaijan cases
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Your support makes all the difference.Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague heard requests for additional emergency measures as part of tit-for-tat cases filed by Armenia and Azerbaijan at the World Court in 2021 today, 30 January.
Both countries have claimed that the other has violated a UN anti-discrimination treaty, which both states have signed.
In 2021, the World Court ordered both countries to prevent the incitement of racial hatred against each others’ nationals, and to not to do anything which may intensify the dispute while the case was considered.
In early January, Azerbaijan asked the Court to order Armenia to stop planting planting landmines in territories it once occupied and to provide information about the whereabouts of traps and explosives.
It comes after Azeri troops drove ethnic Armenian forces out of territory they had controlled since the 1990s in and around Nagorno-Karabakh - a landlocked region - before Russia orchestrated a ceasefire.
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