Lawyer: Armenia seized fifth part of Azerbaijan's territory, and then claimed its rights to it

Armenia, which forcibly seized the fifth part of the territory of another state, committed mass killings, conducted ethical cleansing, forced millions of people to leave their homes, and then claimed its rights to these territories without any grounds, lawyer Stefan Talmon, a member of the legal team of Azerbaijan at the International Court of Justice said during the second round of oral argument of the Azerbaijani side in response to the opponent's preliminary objections within the framework of hearings on the application of ICERD (Azerbaijan against Armenia) at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Report informs.

"How can a state forcibly seize a fifth of the territory of another state, kill some 23,000 of its nationals, cause some 3,900 of its nationals to go missing, ethnicly cleanse a whole area, drive a million people from their homes, deprive them of their property, destroy their cultural heritage, loot their natural resources, and then stand up and claim with a straight face that it has a reasonable expectation that no claim would be brought against it? It cannot. But it is exactly what Armenia has been doing the last few days," he said.