Expert discussion of the Order of the International Court of Justice on indication of provisional measures in the case of Ukraine v. Russia

On May 25, 2017, an expert discussion was held at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics that centered on the Order of the International Court of Justice from April 19, 2017 imposing provisional measures in the case of Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russia). This summary was prepared based on materials from the expert discussion and includes the presentations of six speakers. The Order from April 19, 2017, was considered in the general context of the scientific discussion of problems connected to the International Court of Justice’s applying provisional measures. Among those noted were the loss of this procedural instrument’s exclusive character, the complexity of establishing the accountability of the state for not implementing provisional measures, the unsatisfactory situation of cases with execution of such orders, and also difficulties that the International Court of Justice runs into as it searches for a balance between discretion and caution in making decisions on applying provisional measures in each specific case. In the center of the following line of discussion is the question of the contents of provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice, and possible approaches to interpreting their scope. The discussion also identified the problem of executing the Order’s measures regarding the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, which was recognized by the Russian Federation as an extremist organization and whose operations have been banned. The discussion concluded with a perspective on the International Court of Justice’s further consideration of the case of Ukraine v. Russia as it pertains to applying the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

Citation: (2017) Expertnoe obsuzhdenie postanovleniya Mezhdunarodnogo Suda OON o primenenii vremennykh mer po delu Ukraina protiv Rossii [Expert discussion of the Order of the International Court of Justice on indication of provisional measures in the case of Ukraine v. Russia]. Mezhdunarodnoe pravosudie, no.3, pp.119–135. (In Russian).

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