Russia is satisfied with The Hague Court’s ruling in the case of Ukraine against Russia on April 19.
The International Court of Justice didn’t accept Ukraine’s claim that Russia was financing terrorist groups in the Donbas and refused to consider the Crimean annexation claim. It satisfied only part of Ukraine’s claim of racial discrimination regarding the education on Crimean Tatar, discrimination against Ukrainian languages and the ban of Crimean Tatar executive body Mejlis.
“It is important that the court didn’t satisfy Ukrainian claims about the ‘so-called’ aggression and occupation and acknowledged the Crimea status question as the one to be out of the case,” reads the official Russia’s Foreign Ministry Information Department message on Facebook.
On April 19 the International Court of Justice in Hague satisfied only the part of Ukraine’s claims against Russia in Hague.
The court acknowledged that Russia had a case to answer on charges that it was discriminating against ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that Russia annexed in March 2014.
However, it was unable to accept Ukraine’s claim that Russia was financing terrorist groups in the Donbas, as Ukraine hadn’t provided the proper basis of evidence for the claim. Moreover, it refused to consider Crimea annexation, stating it is not the part of the case.
The court, in reality, acknowledged Russia’s discrimination against Crimean Tatars and ruled it must refrain from maintaining or imposing limitations on the ability of the Crimean Tatar community to conserve its representative institutions, including the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatar’s executive, and representative body.
However, Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the International Court of Justice didn’t satisfy any of Ukrainian claims against Russia.
In terms of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination the court didn’t support any of the temporary restrictive measures Ukraine was asking for, read the Foreign Ministry message.
“The court didn’t support Kyiv’s claims that Russia has been ‘erasing the cultural identity of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar minorities,” said the message. “Moreover, it didn’t accept the Ukrainian side’s charges of ethnically motivated kidnappings, killings, and detentions in Crimea, as well as persecution of journalists and political meetings ban.”
