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- Western Azerbaijan Kurds Issue Autonomy Appeal
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- <hdr>
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, June 4, 1992
- Caucasus: Western Azerbaijan Kurds Issue Autonomy Appeal
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- <body>
- <p>[Transmitted via KYODO. Moscow INTERFAX in English 1937 GMT 1 Jun
- 92]
- </p>
- <p> [Text] The Kurds of Western Azerbaijan have called for the
- restoration of their autonomy, in which the "Kurds would be
- masters of their future, their land and their conscience". The
- appeal issued by a general conference of Kurdish communities of
- the Lachin district and delegates from Kurdish communities of
- the CIS was signed by the honorary chairman of the conference,
- Vasiliy Mustafayev. "IF" [INTERFAX] has received a copy of that
- document from an authoritative source in Yerevan.
- </p>
- <p> The appeal says that a "historic moment" has come and that
- "we are on the threshold of the restoration of the Red
- Kurdistan we have dreamed of and fought for so long". It should
- be a "holy duty" of each Kurd to "defend one's home from the
- Azeri aggressor", the statement says.
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- </body>
- </article>
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