Liechtenstein filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in which it claimed a part of the territory of the Czech Republic ten times larger than the country's current area. This is reported Financial Times.
The principality is going to take back the lands that were confiscated by Czechoslovakia at the end of the Second World War on the basis of the Benes decrees, in which the princes of Liechtenstein were recognized as collaborators of the Nazi regime.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein, Katrin Eggenberger, the annexation of lands still remains an unresolved issue for the principality, therefore it affects sovereignty issues.
In turn, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Martin Smolek said that the ECHR cannot accept the complaint, as the events occurred before the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The dispute concerns the territory with an area of more than two thousand square kilometers, on which the Baroque residence of Valtice and the Neo-Gothic castle of Lednice are located. Because of the conflict, which has been going on for more than 70 years, the countries established diplomatic relations only in 2009.
