The World Court will sit next Thursday to listen to Armenia’s desire for a sudden order to Azerbaijan to bring back all its troops from civilian establishments in Nagorno-Karabakh, the court conveyed on Friday. It is the fourth time the World Court, officially recognised as the International Court of Justice, will listen to an appeal for emergency measures as part of two competing legal disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both states accuse each other before the ICJ of violating a U.N. anti-discrimination treaty.
In February, the United Nations’ highest court ordered Azerbaijan to make sure free movement through the Lachin corridor to and from Nagorno-Karabakh after already ordering both sides in December last year of hindering from any actions that would worsen and expand their differences. Previous month, Azerbaijan brought a military operation that led to exceeding than 100,000 ethnic Armenians to move away from Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has thrown blames on Azerbaijan of “ethnic cleansing” in Karabakh, which Baku rejects. The World Court in The Hague is the U.N. court for bringing solutions in problems between nations. Its rulings are binding, but it has no direct means of executing them.