The Government of Azerbaijan has sent a second application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for «urgent measures» against Armenia for alleged racial discrimination, amid their bilateral tensions over the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
The Azeri Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the application, which follows one filed in September in response to a similar complaint by Yerevan, is due to «Armenia’s continued and deliberate violations of the human rights of Azeris».
Thus, it has pointed to «new evidence of Armenia’s placement of anti-personnel mines and booby traps in homes on Azerbaijani territory since 2021,» while accusing the neighboring country of «continued military provocations.»
«More than 2,700 mines produced in Armenia in 2021 have been discovered since August 2022. There is evidence that these mines were laid after Armenia agreed to the Trilateral Communique to cease all hostilities, withdraw its forces from Azerbaijan and allow the return of displaced Azerbaijanis to the liberated territories,» he has stated.
In this line, he has accused the Armenian authorities of «openly using the Lachin humanitarian road to transport these mines and other weapons.» «Azerbaijan will continue its efforts to hold Armenia accountable for its violations of international law,» he reiterated.
Azeri authorities decided in December to block the Lachin corridor and suspend gas supplies, according to Armenia. Following this, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) called on Azerbaijan to «take measures within its jurisdiction to ensure the safe passage through the Lachin corridor of seriously ill patients in need of medical treatment in Armenia and other persons stranded on the road without shelter and means of subsistence.»
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been engaged in several clashes in recent years over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory with a majority Armenian population that has been the focus of conflict since it decided to secede in 1988 from the Soviet Union-integrated region of Azerbaijan.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
