Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against Armenia in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague over what it says is evidence of extensive environmental destruction in Nagorno Karabakh, Reuters reports.
In a statement released on Thursday by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry accuses Armenia of having engaged in “widespread deforestation, environmentally unsustainable logging, mining, and construction of hydropower plants” in the region.
Azerbaijan’s suit, filed in the Hague court on Wednesday, accuses Armenia of violating the 1979 Berne Convention, an international treaty protecting nature areas in Europe and some parts of Africa.
Azerbaijan ratified the treaty in 2000, and Armenia in 2008.
