Post-Ceasefire Nagorno-Karabakh: Limits to the ECtHR’s Approach to Jurisdiction over Secessionist Entities under the ECHR
Journal: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law
Year: 2022

This paper examines whether (and if so, on what basis) the events taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh after the signature of a trilateral ceasefire agreement in November 2020 would fall within the jurisdiction under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of Azerbaijan as a territorial State; Armenia as potentially exercising effective control there; or Russia given the presence of its peacekeeping mission in the region. It also outlines the future developments after Russia ceases to be the