Armenia asks World Court to throw out Azerbaijan discrimination case

Armenia asked the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by its neighbour Azerbaijan accusing it of anti-Azeri ethnic cleansing in violation of a U.N. anti-discrimination treaty.
The move comes a week after Azerbaijan did the same thing, asking the ICJ, also known as the World Court, to dismiss a case brought against it by Armenia. A final ruling in both cases could be years away, and the court has no way to enforce its rulings.
On Monday, Armenia’s representative Yeghishe Kirakosyan told judges at the U.N.’s top court that Azerbaijan was relying on facts from before the entry into force of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) between the two states, which Armenia says was in September 1996.