The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today held a hearing to consider the UAE's request for a series of interim measures to protect state rights from Qatar's manipulation of legal procedures in international organizations and to prevent Doha from fueling and expanding the dispute. In its continuing malicious actions.
In the pleadings submitted by the State's legal team, the Court listened with interest to the series of measures that the Court was required to issue, which dealt with Qatar's request to withdraw the complaint submitted on 8 March 2018 to the Committee against Racial Discrimination against the UAE for the application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination To raise the same issue before the Commission and the International Court of Justice.
The State also demanded that Qatar lift the ban on the website of the submission of applications to enter the country in its territory so that Qatari citizens can apply to enter the UAE and Qatar immediately stop its national bodies and media outlets, which controls and finances the crisis and the extension of the spread through the publication of charges And Qatar should refrain from taking any action that could aggravate the dispute, extend it to the court or make it more difficult to resolve it.
The State explained that Qatar tried to divert attention from its funding and support to terrorism and by malicious measures to initiate two parallel cases against the UAE, one before the CERD and the other before the International Court of Justice, and its media platform, Al Jazeera and other media owned, False accusations on the national measures taken by the UAE .. Qatar also took measures to ban the website set up by the UAE to help citizens of the State of Qatar to obtain entry permits to the territory of the mother country .
The State asserted that the real reason for the dispute with Qatar is that Doha is evading its commitment to implement its international commitments and to continue its support for terrorist groups, despite repeated promises over several years to stop this course. However, Qatar continues to finance and support terrorism and continues to Signed in the Riyadh Agreement and supplementary agreements.
Abdullah Al Naqbi, Director of the Department of International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, affirmed the UAE's respect for the international mechanisms and provided all required cooperation to the court, adding that the country's legal team presented today all the evidence pointing to Qatari violations and double standards.
Al-Naqbi pointed out that the Qatari approach to filing complaints and complaints before international organizations has been damaged and rebounded. The first was to review its harmful policies to its neighbors and to refrain from supporting extremism, financing and sponsorship, and implementing its commitment in the Riyadh Agreement and the supplementary agreements.