Global tribunal to hear Ukraine, Russia sea dispute
The Permanent Court of Arbitration will in June hear Russia’s objections against a move by Ukraine to drag it before the world’ oldest arbitration body over rights to coastal waters around annexed Crimea.Russia snatched the Black Sea peninsula from Kiev in 2014 and was being accused by the West of illegally blocking access to the Sea of Azov, used by both Russia and Ukraine. Kiev in September 2016 dragged Moscow to the Hague-based PCA, saying it instituted arbitration under international maritime laws “to vindicate its rights as the coastal state…
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