December 3, 2024

Azerbaijan Demands Pullout By Enclave’s Armenia Forces

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The New York Times
Published: September 21, 1992

Azerbaijan stepped up its military offensive to regain control over Nagorno-Karabakh today and demanded that Armenian forces withdraw from the disputed enclave by Tuesday, officials and news reports said. The press office of the enclave’s Armenian-controlled Parliament reported heavy fighting in and around the territory, which lies in Azerbaijan.

In unrest elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, attackers ambushed a bus today and killed seven pro-Government passengers in the secessionist Abkhazia region of Georgia, officials and news reports said.

In a statement on television, Azerbaijan’s military command demanded that all Armenian forces leave Nagorno-Karabakh within two days, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

The statement did not say how Azerbaijan would enforce the ultimatum.

Nagorno-Karabakh is populated mainly by Christian Armenians, who are fighting for independence from Muslim Azerbaijan with help from Armenia.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/21/world/azerbaijan-demands-pullout-by-enclave-s-armenia-forces.html?src=pm

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