UN rejects Georgian file against Russia
The United Nations' highest court rejected on Friday Georgia's complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces, “Ria Novosti” writes.
In a 10-6 ruling, International Court of Justice President Hisashi Owada said the court had no jurisdiction in the case because Russia and Georgia had never attempted to negotiate a settlement to the dispute before Georgia brought it to the court.
At the end of the war in 2008, Georgia filed a complaint with the world court accusing Russia of murdering thousands of ethnic Georgians and displacing some 300,000 people in a two-decade campaign of discrimination in South Ossetia and its other Moscow-backed breakaway republic of Abkhazia, “rferl.org” writes.