Energy Charter arbitration: PCA notice on conclusion of hearing
Institutional public notice concerning the preliminary-objections hearing in PCA Case No. 2023-65.
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Institutional public notice concerning the preliminary-objections hearing in PCA Case No. 2023-65.
Announces the preliminary-objections hearing scheduled for 7–8 April 2026 and arrangements for public access.
Procedural order identified in the official public docket.
Sets the procedural timetable for the preliminary-objections phase.
Addresses whether preliminary objections are to be considered separately from the merits.
Sets time limits for a second round of written pleadings.
Sets time limits for a second round of written pleadings.
Reports the hearing on bifurcation held on 16 October 2025.
Party response to Azerbaijan’s opposition to bifurcation.
Decision MC.DEC/1/25 adopted on 1 September 2025; the source landing page was published on 15 September.
Party submission opposing separate consideration of preliminary objections.
Determines which preliminary objections will be considered in a separate phase.
Examines Azerbaijan’s preliminary objections concerning jurisdiction and the scope of the racial-discrimination convention.
Fixes the time limit for the respondent’s Counter-Memorial.
Examines Armenia’s objections concerning temporal jurisdiction and claims involving landmines and alleged environmental harm.
Fixes the time limit for the respondent’s Counter-Memorial.
Establishes the initial procedural timetable.
Reports the procedural conference held on 12 April 2024 at the Peace Palace.
Adopts the tribunal’s Rules of Procedure, annexed to the order.
Adopts Rules of Procedure and a procedural timetable, included in the linked publication.
Reports the first procedural meeting held on 12 January 2024.
Addresses safe return, departure, remaining residents and personal or property records following the events of September 2023.
Addresses Armenian sovereignty, displacement of Karabakh Armenians, return, border delimitation and regional connections.
PACE’s report describes the decree announced on 28 September 2023.
Official party account of the ceasefire terms and their announced implementation.
Records the parties, tribunal appointment, registry arrangements and initial procedural framework.
Declines to modify the 22 February order and reaffirms the provisional measure indicated in it.
The mediator’s public account addresses territorial integrity, the border, connectivity and humanitarian issues.
Official register of Azerbaijan v. Armenia under Article 27 of the Energy Charter Treaty; includes links to public procedural materials.
Rejects Azerbaijan’s new request for provisional measures and notes that the 2021 measures remain in effect.
Directs Azerbaijan to take measures at its disposal to ensure unimpeded movement along the Lachin corridor.
Official register of the inter-state environmental arbitration brought by Azerbaijan against Armenia.
Examines Armenia’s request to modify the 2021 measures and reaffirms the measures previously indicated.
Refers to the UN Charter, the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, border delimitation and an EU civilian mission.
Addresses protection of detainees, prevention of racial hatred and protection of Armenian cultural heritage.
Addresses prevention of racial hatred against persons of Azerbaijani national or ethnic origin and non-aggravation of the dispute.
Addresses implementation of earlier statements, border stability, a delimitation commission and transport links.
Provides for a trilateral working group and work towards unblocking regional economic and transport links.
The statement contains provisions on the ceasefire, territories, peacekeepers, the Lachin corridor, displaced persons and communications.
Examines the complaints of displaced Azerbaijani applicants concerning homes and property in the Lachin district.
Examines an Armenian applicant’s complaints concerning access to his home, property and relatives’ graves in Gulistan.
Publishes the co-chair countries’ outline of proposed settlement principles.
Records Armenia’s position on the chairman’s Nagorno-Karabakh statement.
Sets out the chairman’s proposed settlement principles and records Armenia’s lack of consent.
Provides for cessation of hostilities from 12 May 1994.
Appeals for a ceasefire and further agreement. This protocol is distinct from the ceasefire that took effect on 12 May.
Condemns ceasefire violations and addresses withdrawal of forces from Zangelan, Goradiz and other areas.
Supports consolidation of the ceasefire and implementation of the Minsk Group’s adjusted timetable of urgent steps.
Addresses the seizure of Agdam, withdrawal of forces and continued negotiations within the CSCE Minsk process.
Calls for an end to hostilities and withdrawal of occupying forces from Kelbadjar and other recently occupied areas.
Establishes a negotiation framework for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.