ICJ largely rejects Ukraine's claims in terror finance case against Russia

MOSCOW

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected on Wednesday almost all of Ukraine's claims on Russia violating the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

Russia has not fulfilled its obligations only on one provision of the convention, said ICJ President Joan Donoghue while reading out the decision in The Hague.

"Russia failed to fulfill its obligations to conduct investigations against individuals who allegedly could finance terrorism in Ukraine," she said.

Most of Ukraine's claims under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination were also found ungrounded.

"The Court rejects all other claims of Ukraine in relation to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination," the order read.

It, however, added that Russia, by the way in which it has implemented its educational system in Crimea after 2014 with regard to school education in the Ukrainian language, has violated its obligations under Articles 2 and 5 of the convention.

Ukraine sued Russia for violating both conventions in 2017, and labeled breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk "terrorist organizations financed by Russia."

Kyiv also insisted that Russia was allegedly conducting a targeted campaign of racial discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.