The International Court of Justice (ICJ) stated in a statement on Wednesday that the following countries are permitted to intervene in the Gambia's Myanmar genocide case: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, and the Maldives. 
In November 2023, the nations had requested to get involved in the lawsuit in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court).

The announcement from the ICJ also stated, "The seven States concerned will... be allowed to submit their written observations on the subject-matter of their interventions." 
"The Court will determine at a later date whether they should be authorized to make observations in the course of the oral proceedings."

The majority Muslim nation of Gambia brought a complaint against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2017, alleging that the latter was carrying out genocide against the Rohingya, a minority Muslim group in Myanmar.

According to a United Nations fact-finding team, there were "genocidal acts" committed during Myanmar's 2017 military assault that pushed 730,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. 
Denying genocide, Myanmar has criticized the U.N. conclusions as "biased and flawed". It claims that the Rohingya insurgents who had carried out assaults were the target of the campaign.
In July 2022, the World Court overruled Myanmar's objections to the genocide proceedings, opening the door for the case to be heard in full at an undisclosed date.