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THE HAGUE, Netherlands AP 鈥?Armenia urged judges at a United Nations court Thursday to order Azerbaijan to release Armenians detained during a six-week war last year and to stop promoting ethnic hatred. Azerbaijan urged judges to reject the requests as the two nations faced off in a Hague courtroom.Armenian representative Yeghishe Kirakosyan made the requests as a hearing opened at the International Court of Justice into a petition by Armenia for judges to impose urgent interim measures to prevent Azerbaijan breaching an international convention to stamp out ethnic discrimination.Among measures Arm stanley cup enia wants the court to impose on Azerbaijan are an order to release and repatriate prisoners of war and halt hate speech aimed at Armenians.Azerbaijan deputy foreign minister, Elnur Mammadov, said Armenia request is defective, and must be rejected. stanley cup The case stems from longstanding enmity that boile stanley cup d over into last year war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that left more than 6,600 people dead. The region is within Azerbaijan but had been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994.Kirakosyan said Armenia wasn ;t asking the court to rule on the root causes of the war, but 8220 eeks to prevent and remedy the cycle of violence and hatred perpetrated against ethnic Armenians.Azerbaijan also has filed a similar case alleging discrimination against its citizens by Znum Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time since dead deal
BRUSSELS AP 鈥?The European Union said Tuesday that Turkeys negotiations on joining the worlds biggest trade bloc shouldn ;t be accelerated because of its failure to uphold demo jordan cratic standards, protect the independence of its courts and effectively fight corruption.In a scathing report on Turkeys progress toward EU membership, the European Commission said Turkish authorities continue to pressure civil society, aid groups and the media, and that political power is still being concentrated in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey rejected some of the findings and branded the EU as prejudiced. Turkey remains a key partner for the European Union. However, Turkey has continued to move further away from the European Union with serious backsliding in the areas of democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights and the independenc stanley cup e of the judiciary, the commission said.READ MORE: Erdogan raises rhetoric in Greece standoff in MediterraneanTurkey began its EU membership ta mizuno lks in 2005 but they have stood at a standstill in recent years, and tensions with Ankara have mounted since over its disputed energy exploration in parts of the Mediterranean Sea.Some EU countries oppose the large, relatively poor and mainly Muslim country joining. Germany, notably, would prefer an alternate kind of privileged partnership. France too is opposed to Turkeys membership, and all 27 EU nations must agree for any country to join.Countries hoping to take a seat at Europes big table must