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Armenia ratifies Rome Statute despite Russian warnings

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

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Armenia’s Parliament has ratified the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Rome Statute despite the Kremlin warning that it would have ‘the most negative consequences for bilateral relations’. The Armenian Parliament ratified the statute on Tuesday, with 60 MPs voting in favour and 22 voting against. The treaty has been submitted to President Vahagn Khachaturyan for approval. Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Armenia’s representative for international legal issues, said at the plenary session that Armeni

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Former ICC prosecutor accuses Azerbaijan of ‘genocide’ in Nagorno-Karabakh

by Ani Avetisyan

•4 min read

The former chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, has accused the Azerbaijani government of genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh, as the humanitarian situation in the region continues to worsen. ‘Starvation is the invisible Genocide weapon. Without immediate dramatic change, this group of Armenians will be destroyed in a few weeks’, Ocampo wrote in a 28-page report on the Lachin corridor blockade published on 7 August. ‘Starvation as a method to destroy peop

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Armenia

Russia ‘criticises’ Armenia’s International Criminal Court ratification

by Ani Avetisyan

•2 min read

Russia’s Foreign Ministry finds Armenia’s intent to ratify the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) ‘inadmissible’, Russian state news agency TASS reports. TASS cited an unnamed source from the ministry as saying that Yerevan’s intent to ratify the Rome Statute could have ‘extremely negative consequences’. Armenia’s Constitutional Court greenlit the ratification process on Friday, a week after the ICC issued arrest warrants for President Putin and Russian Children’s Rig

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2008 August War

ICC prosecutor applies for arrest of South Ossetian officials over 2008 war

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•2 min read

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has applied for arrest warrants for three current and former South Ossetian officials in connection with the 2008 August War, including opposition presidential candidate David Sanakoyev. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan filed the application on Thursday. The request comes almost 14 years after the 2008 August War. The ICC launched the investigation into war crimes committed from 1 July–10 October 2008 in January 2016. The thre