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A grand majority of justices overseeing Ukraine’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation for the violation of the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have agreed to approve declarations of intervention by 33 nations, the ICJ announced on June 9.
The admissibility of the declarations was achieved with a vote of 14 to one, the court noted.
The nations, intervening on Ukraine’s side, include 26 members of the European Union (save Hungary), as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Lichtenstein, and the UK.
The court also unanimously decided that a similar declaration, filed by the United States, was not admissible at this stage of proceedings.
Hearings on a different lawsuit filed by Ukraine against Russia at the ICJ – this time involving the violation of two separate conventions, namely the Terrorist Financing Convention and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – started on June 6 and will continue until June 14, with a decision expected at the end of 2023 or in early 2024.
According to Ukrainian authorities, this lawsuit is intended to prove that Russia both discriminates against Crimean Tatars, and has financed the Donbas puppet authorities, which are seen by the Ukrainian government as terrorist organizations.
In April 2017, the ICJ enacted a preliminary injunction obliging Russia to allow Crimean Tatars to maintain their representative body, the Mejlis, though Russia instead designated the group to be a “terrorist organization” and has continued racial and political discrimination of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimean peninsula.
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