Nishka Srinivas Veluvali –
Published On: December 07, 2021 at 20:50 IST
The UN Top Court will decide on 07 December, Tuesday about the “tit-for-tat requests” put forth by Armenia and Azerbaijan for impromptu steps to reduce the stress following the last year’s war among the Caucasus arch-foes.
The former Soviet republics had a war that prolonged for six weeks in autumn in 2020 over Azerbaijan’s Nagorno – Karabakh, both reported racial discrimination by the other.
Both the counterparts sought the International Court of Justice in Hague to take the required measures against the other in September.
“The ICJ’s Chief Judge Joan Donoghue will deliver the order on the request for the indication of provisional measures made by the Republic of Armenia at 14:00 GMT”, the Court stated.
Immediately after Armenia’s ruling is done, Azerbaijan’s case will also be ruled.
Post World War II, the International Court of Justice was established to solve all the disputes among member nations of the United Nations. The members who have agreed for the Court to solve the disputes are obliged to follow its ruling, but the ICJ has no power to enforce it on them.
Nagorno – Karabakh is an Armenian region situated in Azerbaijan that after the collapse of the Soviet Union came out of the control of Baku in the 1990s.
The Nagorno – Karabakh war took 6,500 lives last year.
The war has put an end after Russian-brokered cease fired under whom Armenia surrendered the territories which it had controlled for almost decades to Turkish-backed Azerbaijan.