Even if we were going to file a lawsuit against [Azerbaijan president Ilham] Aliyev, can you imagine that I would say yes, we are going to file a lawsuit not tomorrow, the next day? It would not be right to disclose such things, also from my point of view as a representative of the state. Yeghishe Kirakosyan, representative of Armenia for international legal affairs, told this to reporters in the National Assembly Monday.
"We have four general interstate proceedings against Azerbaijan at the European Court [of Human Rights (ECHR)], and we also have two interstate proceedings against Armenia at the European Court. The four interstate processes, which are conducted by Armenia against Azerbaijan at the European Court, refer to the 44-day [Nagorno-Karabakh] war and the period following it, they refer to the illegal judicial processes carried out against captured persons, the illegal deprivation of liberty, they refer to the presence of Azerbaijani armed units in the sovereign territory of Armenia and the gross violations of human rights as a result, they refer as well as to the forced deportation of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and all the violations accompanying it," Kirakosyan said, in particular..
According to him, in Armenia’s first lawsuit at the ECHR, and which was related to the aforesaid war itself, "we have already passed the written procedures, the objections have been exchanged in writing, which means that we are already expecting the verbal hearings at this court.
"We will expect substantive, public hearings by the court, with the composition of the large chamber," Yeghishe Kirakosyan announced.
