Azerbaijan urges top UN court to toss out Armenian case alleging racial discrimination

By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Lawyers for Azerbaijan are urging the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. They argued Monday that judges do not have jurisdiction. Armenia filed the case at the International Court of Justice in 2021 accusing Azerbaijan of a “state-sponsored policy of Armenian hatred.” The legal dispute stems from long-standing tensions that erupted into a 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh, which left more than 6,600 people dead. The region is within Azerbaijan but had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994.