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Thousands gathered for a rally yesterday in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, to press the republic's parliament to renew a demand to annex the disputed region, a mountainous enclave in Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabakh...
After five months of ethnic unrest in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ran out of patience last week. Addressing the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Gorbachev charged that efforts of the largely Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia were "unacceptable" and endangered his program for revitalizing Soviet society...
Taking its cue from Gorbachev, the Presidium vetoed Nagorno-Karabakh's decision to leave Azerbaijan. Then, in the first action of its kind under Gorbachev, the legislative body stripped Soviet citizenship from Paruyr Ayrikyan, a leading Armenian dissident who has been jailed since March for fomenting unrest, and ordered him to be expelled from the country. His destination is not yet known...
Meanwhile, Soviet television reported that factories remain closed in Nagorno-Karabakh and that troops continue to patrol the capital, Stepanakert. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nation's highest executive body, is expected to consider the Nagorno-Karabakh issue this week, but so far the Kremlin has shown no inclination to redraw borders...
...much for wishful thinking. The executive council of the Azerbaijani parliament promptly passed a resolution declaring the vote illegal, and Nagorno-Karabakh's public prosecutor appeared on nationwide television to second that opinion. In a main square of Yerevan, the Armenian capital, protesters continued to demonstrate solidarity with Nagorno-Karabakh secessionists...