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WORLD NEWSWednesday 8 March 2017

Russia: World court has no jurisdiction in Ukraine case 

MIKE CORDER                    Roman Kolodkin, head of the legal department of the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry, left, looks                                 rorist financing and racial
Associated Press               at the Ukraine delegation table at the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Russia on Tuesday                                   discrimination. Hearings
THE HAGUE, Netherlands         rejected allegations that it sponsors terrorism by funneling arms and money to separatist rebels in                               this week are focused on
(AP) — Russia on Tuesday       eastern Ukraine.                                                                                                                  Ukraine’s request for the
rejected allegations that                                                                                                                                        court to issue “provisional
it sponsors terrorism by fun-                                                                                                           (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)  measures” including an
neling arms and money to                                                                                                                                         order for Moscow to halt
separatist rebels in east-                                                                                                                                       financing to rebels in east-
ern Ukraine and is also re-                                                                                                                                      ern Ukraine and to stop
sponsible for discriminating                                                                                                                                     discriminating against non-
against ethnic groups in                                                                                                                                         Russians in Crimea.
Crimea.                                                                                                                                                          As part of its main case,
Roman Kolodkin, the legal                                                                                                                                        Ukraine also wants the
director of Russia’s foreign                                                                                                                                     court to order Russia to pay
ministry, said that a case                                                                                                                                       reparations for the down-
filed by Ukraine at the In-                                                                                                                                      ing of Malaysia Airlines
ternational Court of Justice                                                                                                                                     Flight 17, the Amsterdam-
making the allegations is                                                                                                                                        Kuala Lumpur flight shot
an attempt to draw the                                                                                                                                           out of the sky over eastern
court into ruling on “issues                                                                                                                                     Ukraine by a surface-to-
between Ukraine and Rus-                                                                                                                                         air missile on July 17, 2014,
sia that are clearly beyond                                                                                                                                      killing all 298 people on
the court’s jurisdiction in                                                                                                                                      board.
this case.”                                                                                                                                                      International investiga-
The opening of a legal front                                                                                                                                     tors have concluded that
in the long-running dispute                                                                                                                                      the Buk missile was fired
                                                                                                                                                                 from territory in eastern
                               between Moscow and Kiev         eastern Ukraine.                                                                                  Ukraine controlled by Rus-
                               comes as clashes continue       Kiev wants the world                                                                              sia-backed rebels, using a
                               between rebels and Ukrai-       court to rule that Russia is                                                                      mobile launcher trucked in
                               nian forces in conflict-torn    breaching treaties on ter-                                                                        from Russia and hastily re-
                                                                                                                                                                 turned there, a finding that
                                                                                                                                                                 Moscow rejects.q

                               UK’s Brexit plan hits more snags in Parliament

                               LONDON (AP) — The British       turn the amendments next                                                                          ensure “that Parliament has
                               government encountered          week.                                                                                             the critical role in determin-
                               more opposition Tuesday         Prime Minister Theresa                                                                            ing the future that we will
                               to its plans for leaving the    May’s governing Conserva-                                                                         bequeath to generations
                               European Union in Parlia-       tives have a majority in the                                                                      of young people,” Hesel-
                               ment’s unelected House of       House of Commons, but                                                                             tine said.
                               Lords.                          not in the Lords.                                                                                 May wants to invoke Article
                               By a 366-268 vote, the Lords    May has promised that Par-                                                                        50 of the EU’s key treaty,
                               passed an amendment to          liament will get a vote on                                                                        triggering exit negotiations,
                               the government’s Brexit bill    Britain’s EU exit terms — but                                                                     by March 31. She can’t do
                               requiring Parliament — not      only on a “take it or leave                                                                       that until Parliament passes
                               just the government — to        it” basis. If lawmakers reject                                                                    legislation sanctioning the
                               approve Britain’s exit deal     the agreement she obtains,                                                                        move, and pro-EU lawmak-
                               with the EU.                    the U.K. could stumble out                                                                        ers have been determined
                               The chamber inserted an-        of the EU without any deal                                                                        to put obstacles in the gov-
                               other change last week,         in place. That’s not good                                                                         ernment’s path.
                               promising that  EU  citizens    enough for many pro-Euro-                                                                         Back-and-forth between
                               living in Britain can stay af-  pean legislators.                                                                                 the Commons and the
                               ter the U.K. leaves the bloc.   Michael Heseltine, a former                                                                       Lords — a process known as
                               The changes may be tem-         Conservative Cabinet min-                                                                         “parliamentary ping pong”
                               porary. Now that the Lords      ister, said Britain faces “the                                                                    — could delay passage of
                               have passed the bill, it will   most momentous peace-                                                                             the legislation and poten-
                               go back to the elected          time decision of our time.”                                                                       tially threaten May’s time-
                               House of Commons, where         Giving lawmakers a vote                                                                           table for starting  EU  exit
                               lawmakers could over-           on the terms of Brexit would                                                                      talks.q
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