(23 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Hague, Netherlands – 23 September 2024
1. Exterior of International Court of Justice and the Permanent Arbitration Court
2. Arrival of Anton Korynevych, Ukrainian representative
3. Ukraine’s legal team
4. Arrival of Gennady of Kuzmin, representative of the Russian Federation
5. The Russian Federation’s legal team
6. Close of Kuzmin
7. Pan of room
8. Various of three judges of the Arbitration Court
STORYLINE:
Ukraine on Monday accused Russia of seeking to illegally seize control of the strategically important Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait, as hearings opened in a high-stakes arbitration case between Kyiv and Moscow.
The hearings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration are the latest in a string of international legal cases involving Russia and Ukraine linked to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia wants to take the Sea of Azov and Kersh Strait for itself, and so it has built a great gate at the entrance to keep international shipping out while allowing small Russian river vessels in,” Ukrainian representative Anton Korynevych told a panel of arbitrators.
The gate he referred to is a bridge built by Russia across the Kerch Strait after the annexation of Crimea.
Ukraine filed the case in 2016, two years after Russia illegally annexed Crimea. It accuses Moscow of subsequently breaching a United Nations treaty on the law of the sea by plundering energy resources and barring Ukrainian fishermen from waters they traditionally fished.
Kyiv is seeking unspecified compensation.
Russia insists the arbitration court does not have jurisdiction and says that, if it rules it does have jurisdiction, the court should dismiss Ukraine’s claims.
“Ukraine’s accusations in this case are, of course, completely groundless and hopeless,” Russian Agent Gennady Kuzmin told the panel.
He argued that the Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait constitute “internal waters” that are not covered by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the treaty Ukraine alleges Russia is breaching.
After the two opening statements, the panel hearing continued behind closed doors. A ruling could take years.
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