The Republic of Lithuania has filed a petition before the International Court of Justice in The Hague seeking its intervention in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian Federation proceedings.
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The Republic of Lithuania has filed a petition before the International Court of Justice in The Hague seeking its intervention in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian Federation proceedings.
Lithuania filed a petition before the ICJ seeking to interfere with the proceedings of the court implementing Article 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
Article 63 of the ICJ statute states that when a convention is produced before a court that shall be equally binding on all states of that convention, each of these states has the right to intervene in the proceedings.
The convention under consideration before the ICJ in the Ukraine-Russia case is the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or as it is popularly known as The Genocide Convention.
Lithuania, in its declaration for intervention, states that “Lithuania shares in the Genocide Convention with all other contracting parties a common interest in ensuring that the formulation of its provisions – including the obligations of all per) – properly interpreted so as to avoid derogatory interpretations and abuses of the genocidal convention, whether in the present case or in the future.”
The ICJ recently ordered Russia to cease military operations in Ukraine with immediate effect as a temporary measure. It was a 13:2 decision in which the ICJ said it was “deeply concerned” about Russia’s use of force in Ukraine.
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