On Tuesday, June 6, the first hearings on the merits of Ukraine's lawsuit against Russia took place at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague. It was submitted in connection with the alleged violation by the Russian side of two international conventions - on the fight against the financing of terrorism and the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, "German Wave" (DW) reported.
The hearings will continue on June 8, 12 and 14, and the next stage will be the verdict. It is expected that the decision of the UN court will take several months.
The meeting in The Hague was called the culmination of six years of work by Anton Korynevych, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. This is the first trial of Ukraine against Russia, which has reached the stage of substantive consideration in an international court, he noted.
The violations currently under consideration were committed in 2014-2015. As the Ukrainian delegation in The Hague assures, it has other tools to bring Russia to justice - this is a case of genocide against the Ukrainian people, an International Criminal Court warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ombudsman, and in the future - an international criminal tribunal. aggression against Ukraine.
The decision of the UN International Court of Justice is binding on both parties.
The representative of the Russian delegation at the trial refused to communicate with the DW journalist.
