The tiny Marshall Islands will Monday seek to convince the UN’s highest court to take up a lawsuit against India, Pakistan and Britain which they accuse of failing to halt the nuclear arms race.
lawyers representing the small Pacific island nation will launch the opening salvos in a David-versus-Goliath battle in which the International Court of Justice is to examine whether it is competent to hear lawsuits against India and Pakistan.
A third hearing against Britain, scheduled for Wednesday, will be devoted to “preliminary objections” raised by london.
In 2014, the Marshall Islands - a Pacific Ocean territory with 72,000 people - accused nine countries of “not fulfilling their obligations with respect to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament.”
They included China, Britain, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States.