The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in the Hague, the Netherlands, declined to hear 'ethnic cleansing' charges brought by Georgia against Russia, saying it had no jurisdiction in the case. The Court pointed out that attempts to resolve the issue between the two countries through bilateral negotiations should have taken place before Georgia sought intervention by the court. Georgia applied to the court in August 2008 under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, accusing Russia of ethnic violence against thousands of ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2011/04/01/decline/
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/un-court-declines-ethnic-cleansing-case-against-russia_139750.html
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