THE HAGUE, 5 February, 2021 (TON): Case brought by Qatar got rejected by the United Nations top court accusing the UAE of discrimination during a blockade of Doha that has since been lifted.

In 2018, Qatar filed the case, a year after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt cut transport links and claimed that the gas-rich nation backed the extremists and was closer to Iran.

Alongside, Doha said the UAE’s actions had breached the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a UN treaty.

International Court of Justice (ICJ) said that it “upholds the first preliminary objection raised by the UAE” that racial discrimination did not include nationality in this case.

“The court finds that it has no jurisdiction to entertain the application filed by the state of Qatar”, ICJ President Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf said in The Hague.

Consequently, at a summit in January earlier, the rivals of Qatar agreed to lift restrictions and the UAE reopened its borders to Qatar.

It did not seem that the strong critic of Qatar, the UAE and its leadership as almost unreachable part to the rapprochement became the first to reopen its borders to Qatar and alter Saudi Arab and Egypt did.