Monday, September 28 2020 17:15

ArmInfo.The Council of Europe (CoE) expects that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will soon take a decision on Yerevan's request for interim measures  in connection with the aggravation of the situation in  Nagorno-Karabakh. Official representative of the Secretary General of  the Council of Europe, Daniel Holtgen, reported this to the TASS  correspondent on Monday.

"The ECHR received a request from Armenia on the application of  interim measures in accordance with Article 39 of the court rules,"  he said. "I cannot say yet when the decision on this appeal will be  made, but I expect it to happen soon," Holtgen said.

In accordance with Article 39 of the ECHR Rules, at the request of  one of the parties, the court "may indicate to the parties any  interim measures it deems necessary."

Yesterday, the representation of Armenia to the ECHR reported that  Yerevan applied to the European Court of Human Rights with a request  to apply interim measures against Azerbaijan in connection with the  aggravation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Interim or interim  measures means the prohibition of the defendant to take actions that  may lead to the infliction of irreparable and at the same time  substantial harm to the applicant or the protected interests of  citizens.

It should be noted that in addition to the petition for an interim  measure against Azerbaijan submitted to the European Court of Human  Rights the day before, the Republic of Armenia presented to the ECHR  today new facts of the bombing of settlements, civilian objects and  civilians by the Azerbaijani armed forces.  "In parallel with the  development of events, new facts will be presented to the ECHR," the  statement circulated by the representative of Armenia to the ECHR  says.