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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, will deliver its order on Armenia’s request for the indication of provisional measures against Azerbaijan on 17 November, the court said on Friday.

“On Friday 17 November 2023, the International Court of Justice will deliver its Order on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Armenia on 28 September 2023 (see press release No. 2023/51) in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Armenia v. Azerbaijan). A public sitting will take place at 3 p.m. at the Peace Palace in The Hague, during which Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court, will read the Court’s Order,” it said in a press release.

Yerevan urges the UN court to confirm Azerbaijan’s obligations on rejecting "any actions directly or indirectly aimed at or having the effect of displacing the remaining ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh."

The claim says that "Azerbaijan shall refrain from taking any measures which might entail breaches of its obligations under the CERD."

Yerevan expects that Baku "shall refrain from taking punitive actions against the current or former political representatives or military personnel of Nagorno-Karabakh" and "shall not alter or destroy any monument commemorating the 1915 Armenian genocide or any other monument or Armenian cultural artefact or site present in Nagorno-Karabakh."