Armenia’s Court of Cassation today threw out an appeal by Artak Beglaryan seeking to overturn a lower court’s decision that found in favour of the International School of Diplomacy run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Beglaryan, who lost his sight at an early age, applied to the school but was rejected on the grounds of his disability.

The young man wanted the court to declare the school’s rejection as illegal and also sought 1 AMD in moral damages.

After receiving the rejection Begalryan, who graduated from Yerevan University’s Faculty of International Affairs with an honors BA, studied for a year in England.

Beglaryan says he's planning to sue the School of Diplomacy.