Georgia asks UN court for urgent order to Russia
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Georgia has asked the UN's highest court to issue an urgent order to Russia to halt what it describes as human rights violations on ethnic Georgians, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said on Thursday.
On Tuesday Georgia filed a law suit with the Hague-based ICJ or World Court, which investigates conflicts between nations, accusing Russia of ethnic cleansing in the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Typically cases before the ICJ take years to settle but if a party requests an "indication of provisional measures", the court's judges can make a swift provisional order. (Reuters)
