The Republic of Lithuania has filed a plea seeking intervention in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian Federation proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Republic of Lithuania has filed a plea seeking intervention in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian Federation proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The plea was moved by Lithuania before the ICJ seeking to intervene in the court’s proceedings invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
Article 63 of the ICJ Statute says that when a construction of a convention is in question before the Court, which will be equally binding on all States party to that convention, then each of these States has a right to intervene in the proceedings.
The convention in question before the ICJ in the Ukraine-Russia case is the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or as it’s popularly known as The Genocide Convention.
Lithuania has stated in its declaration for intervention that “Lithuania shares with all other contracting parties to the Genocide Convention a common interest in ensuring that the construction of its provisions — which contain obligations erga omnes partes (towards all) — are properly interpreted so as to avoid abusive interpretations and misuses of the Genocide Convention, whether in the present case or in the future.”
The ICJ had recently ordered Russia to cease military operations in Ukraine with immediate effect as a provisional measure. It was a 13:2 verdict in which the ICJ stated that it was “profoundly concerned” about Russia’s use of force in Ukraine.
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